In IE8 and Chrome, Processes Are the New Threads

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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.'"http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/10/196224 (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/10/196224&from=rss)
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