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In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads

Posted by kdawson on from the keeping-intel's-margins-healthy dept.

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.'"

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  1. Have to watch what I say by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
    1. Re:Have to watch what I say by dwywit · · Score: 5, Funny

      What, something like hawking fell ?

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      They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
  2. Oblig by plopez · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
  3. Re:Deja vu by aspx · · Score: 5, Funny

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