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I don't think anyone is unilaterally going to move to multiprocess as a programming paradigm. Web browsers have their own reasons for using Multi-process, inclu
by jvanderbot 3y ago
I don't think anyone is unilaterally going to move to multiprocess as a programming paradigm. Web browsers have their own reasons for using Multi-process, including security from memory isolation, resilience against crashes in the client side code, killing individual tabs, and so on.
I'd wager the vast majority of programs being written that need concurrency or parallelism still use multi threading or SIMD.
- kuchenbecker 3y agoThis must be browser specific, as servers still use threading. The 32GB mentioned is very small as well, we run up to 1.5TB nodes.
- jvanderbot 3y agoI don't understand how the choice of servers being multi threaded affects browsers being multi process