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>