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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. Re:Designs might be interesting, though results co by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Firefox has done an absolute shit job. Right now, Firefox is, full-stop, the worst browser out there.

    For that matter, IE8 already does what Chrome does. The browsers that don't are Konqueror, Firefox, Safari, and Opera (plus the assorted little browsers not worthy of mention. Get a clue.

    IE8 will be performing well, and Firefox is going to have their balls in a vise, crushed by Chrome and IE8.

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    "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."