In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads

SenFo writes "To many of the people who downloaded Google Chrome last week, it was a surprise to observe that each opened tab runs in a separate process rather than a separate thread. Scott Hanselman, Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, discusses some of the benefits of running in separate processes as opposed to separate threads. A quote: 'Ah! But they're slow! They're slow to start up, and they are slow to communicate between, right? Well, kind of, not really anymore.'"

Comments

Have to watch what I say

[bigtallmofo]

I may be inadvertently responsible for Internet Explorer 8's use of separate processes for each tab. Months ago, when they invited me to install the beta of their latest web browser, I told them to do something that sounds very similar to "Go fork yourself!"

I think they took that as architectural advice.

Re:Have to watch what I say

[gEvil (beta)]

forkin hell!

And here I was hoping I'd see a Spoonerism somewhere.

Re:Have to watch what I say

[dwywit]

What, something like hawking fell ?

Oblig

[plopez]

"The 70's called...." I can't bring myself to say the rest....

Re:Oblig

[Anonymous Coward]

1990 called, they'd like their joke back.

Re:Processes

[Firehed]

javascript application

Well there's your problem...

Re:Processes

[piquadratCH]

Not to rain on your parade, but exactly how are you intending to use browsers in cluster computing?

Didn't you get the memo? The browser is the new operating system! So, naturally, it belongs on a cluster.

Re:Deja vu

[aspx]

You just defended Microsoft on Slashdot and you got modded +5 Insightful. I will follow you anywhere, O great one!

Re:Processes

[apoc.famine]

It's not reinventing the wheel if you don't know what the wheel is yet.

Wait...did you expect someone replying to you on slashdot to know what the hell they were talking about?


Well there's your problem...