Internet Explorer 8 delayed! And Google Chrome is leading the way!

In a blog post by Internet Explorer team, the launch of Internet Explorer 8 was delayed until sometime next year. The final release candidate is due for Q1 of 2009.
The IE team cites concerns over some bugs that couldn't be resolve soon, as the initial target for the release was before 2009.
Internet Explorer 8 in it's latest beta, was still dead last in terms of standards compliance, JavaScript, DOM and HTML performance.

A quick way of measuring JavaScript is running this test
http://nontroppo.org/timer/progressive_raytracer.html

on my box I got:
Opera 9.60 Finished in: 25.782 second
CrossOver Chromium Finished in: 21.186 seconds
Konqueror 4.1.2 Finished in: 21.639 second

I couldn't get Firefox 3.0.4 to run the test without hanging.

I'm on GNU/Linux so I don't have the latest version of Internet Explorer to test it, but on my father's laptop, IE7 took 2x the time as Google Chrome. People running Windows can verify this.