> It's worth making it explicit that many home computing tasks are highly parrallelizable because the work is actually completely separate programs. That's a g

> It's worth making it explicit that many home computing tasks are highly parrallelizable because the work is actually completely separate programs. That's a great point. At any point in time there are already dozens of processes running, of which only a fraction are tied to a GUI. Even GUI apps are currently resorting to launching multiple processes. For example, Firefox announced last year their new site isolation security architecture where they load each site as an independent process. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-site-isolation-security-architecture/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/introducing-firefox-new-si... Also, here's a link to a recent HN discussion on Firefox's recent announcement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31355857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31355857