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I’m no expert on the internals, but with an appropriately configured set of resource limits for your user class, OpenBSD is not much slower than Linux for multi

by snazz 7y ago

I’m no expert on the internals, but with an appropriately configured set of resource limits for your user class, OpenBSD is not much slower than Linux for multithreaded tasks like web browsing. I think they disabled hyperthreading by default for security but I don’t have a device with those capabilities anyway. Firefox spawns many threads on all four cores of my desktop machine and performance is plenty good.

innot 7y ago
Firefox uses processes, not threads for parallelism, doesn't it?
- snazz 7y ago
  Yes, but I’m not sure if we’re talking about hardware “threads”, the OS concept of a “thread”, or what Firefox calls a “thread”. Maybe someone who knows more about what they’re talking about could clear it up?