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Address Book Performance

Machine Configuration:
  • Windows 98, Pentium II 266, 128 MB of RAM.
  • 1,000 entry address book (consisting of name, email, home/work address, company, title, phone numbers)

Performance Metric
 Netscape 6.x (2-21-2002)
 Outlook Express 6
 Netscape 4.7x
Load Address Book
1 sec 62 ms
 3 sec 59 ms
 0.79 sec
Sort | Name
 0.97 sec
 0.61 sec
 0.68 sec
Sort | Email
 0.94 sec
 0.67 sec
 0.67 sec
Scroll Address Book
 52 sec 10 mil
 51 sec 87 ms
 51 sec 81 ms
New Card
 1 sec 88 ms
 0.61 sec
 0.71 sec
Edit Card
 1 sec 67 ms
 0.60 sec
 0.52 sec
Batch Delete (1,000 cards)
 1 min 18 sec 81 ms
 8 sec 40 ms
 6 sec 99 mil
Application Launch Time (Empty Address Book)
 2 sec 82 ms
 1 sec 10 ms
 0.65 sec

Stephen Donner <stephend@netscape.com>