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You're just adding to the confusion...
(a) IE7 doesn't perform nearly as badly as they suggest or IE would have been dumped by the lorry load by now. And it hasn't. It's still the market leader.
(b) Only one of the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark tests returns an abnormally high result in IE7, and I doubt you'll come up against that very often in the real world or (a) would equally apply.
(c) The times shown in the graphs are the total result in milliseconds for all the tests. You're not likely to come across all the events tested in one piece of JavaScript on any one site.
(d) The important factor is always the user experience, not how long something takes to render in some measurable test. I doubt anyone would really notice the difference between a piece of JavaScript that rendered in 50ms and a piece that rendered in 500ms. Especially given that the download time is part of the perception, and this can vary considerably just from page to page.

I'm not an advocate of IE. I hate it. My preference is still for Firefox. I just think this whole test is not only biased but highly flawed.
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