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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by 13ren on Thursday November 13, 2008 @01:29PM (#363378)
I don't think throughput is a barrier at the moment.

The main touted benefit I've heard of Chromium's tab-threading is insulation, so if one tab crashes it doesn't bring the whole browser down.

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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by gnaritas on Thursday November 13, 2008 @02:26PM (#363468)
Actually, I'd say the main benefit is that closing tabs actually releases memory because those processes die.
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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by Herring on Thursday November 13, 2008 @02:44PM (#363493)
New computers are coming with gigabytes of ram, I have 2. On the other hand, I rather enjoyed watching a quicktime crash take down only 1 tab. I kept loading it repeatedly.
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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by gnaritas on Saturday November 15, 2008 @02:58PM (#365495)
I have 4, that means nothing when the browser keeps bloating up and taking gigs itself because opening and closing lots of tabs all day long fragments the memory so badly that it can't release ram back to the OS when you close some tabs.
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Re:"Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it" by Herring on Sunday November 16, 2008 @03:08AM (#365884)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=restart...
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