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Consumer applications? Doubt it. Not a whole lot of consumer-oriented applications parallelize that well to be honest.
by anthonybsd 10y ago
Consumer applications? Doubt it. Not a whole lot of consumer-oriented applications parallelize that well to be honest.
- qaq 10y agolook at how many threads your Chrome is running
- yborg 10y agoAll but one set (for the active tab) of which are probably idle or effectively so most of the time.
- whyever 10y agoOnly Servo parallelizes single-page rendering as far as I know.
- anentropic 10y agobut they're moving in that direction
- MLR 10y agoThis review has a CPU web test section, you can see performance is mostly a function of IPC and clock speed.
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- caf 10y agoEven crusty old Microsoft Excel parallelises worksheet recalculation.
- smitherfield 10y agoSure, but Excel is presumably one of the most optimized (in terms of the amount of money and brainpower devoted to optimizing it) applications in existence.
- caf 10y agoThat's not the feeling you get when you use it, it seems more like the underlying engine hasn't really changed a great deal in 20 years.
- smitherfield 10y agoThat's the price of backward compatibility. But I think it's a bit of a "Seinfeld is unfunny"[1] situation; if Microsoft decided to save on the nine-figure budget and outsource Excel development to, say, your favorite purveyor of antivirus software, you'd notice real fast. [1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny (apologies for the TVTropes link at night!)
- anentropic 10y agodon't you run more than one of them at a time though?