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Web browsing is still single threaded. Games still have a very busy main thread.

• hyperbovine 7y ago
  > Web browsing is still single threaded. Only in the narrow sense that processes are not threads. See `Window > Task Manager` in Chrome.
• trynumber9 7y ago
  Firefox Kraken is faster on the 3700X, for example. It'll come down more to which browser you use than the processor.
• hajile 7y ago
  1 UI thread !== only 1 thread Firefox and chrome use a half-dozen or so threads parsing and compiling JS code so it loads quickly. Firefox's Quantum work adds a lot of threads for rendering as well. In addition, service workers, web workers, and Wasm all spawn additional processes which serve the same purpose if you aren't sharing memory directly. That said, the Phoronix Selenium tests show AMD ahead by quite a bit. (source)[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-3700x-3900x-linux&num=6 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-37...]
  • MikusR 7y ago
    So Servo is just snake-oil?
    • hajile 7y ago
      Firefox's quantum work comes from their servo work, so I'd say it's been valuable.