by Marius Gheorghe
12. September 2008 10:11
Bad ideea (related to browsers anyway). Both IE8 and Chrome use process to ensure code isolation (basically each browser tab runs in his own process). From a efficiency point of view this is a little disturbing because creating a new process in Windows is a task consuming process. I'm thinking of my browsing habits....i never have less than 15 tabs opened in Firefox. If i would run Chrome/IE8 that would mean 15 new process. Add the regular programs (devenv, notepad++, smss, im, music player, email etc etc ) and quickly browsing becomes prohibitive.
I'm all for multithread software which uses all the cpu cores but this is taken to the extreme. What's next....a email client which opens each email message in a new process ?