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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by DannoHung on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:28PM (#2874115)
Did they make Firefox re-entrant so that a f'd up page in one tab doesn't affect all the other ones and the browser chrome?
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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by yid on Thursday August 11, 2011 @03:41PM (#2874411)
Either you're incredibly involved in the Mozilla codebase, or you're misusing the word "re-entrant" [1]. Since you're asking about development status, I'm going to assume the latter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reentrant_(subroutine)

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Re:Firefox 7 will use up to 50% less memory by DannoHung on Friday August 12, 2011 @11:53AM (#2877759)
Forgive me if I've completely misunderstood how GUIs work, but isn't reentrancy a basic requirement for GUIs in multi-threaded applications to be responsive when one thread of execution is blocked?

I mean, I guess they could use a message queue between their thread for window chrome and page rendering, but I don't recall them ever mentioning anything about that in any dev journals that I used to read years ago.

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