IEBlog : A Closer Look at Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Acceleration Through Flying Images

IEBlog : A Closer Look at Internet Explorer 9 Hardware Acceleration Through Flying Images
We redesigned the core of Internet Explorer 9 to be hardware accelerated. Internet Explorer 9’s display rendering subsystem uses the GPU for all graphics and text on web pages. Internet Explorer 9 moves graphics work that has traditionally occurred on the general purpose CPU to faster, more specialized hardware. Internet Explorer 9’s JavaScript engine takes advantage of multiple-processor cores to background compile JavaScript into machine code. Internet Explorer 9 uses modern processor instruction sets across the entire product. Taken together, these changes enable computations to occur faster and in parallel, freeing the CPU to spend time performing other operations