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   by rpearl 15y ago

   I know I'm a bit late with my reply, but I don't follow hacker news all too much. That said, in general, IPC is slower than threading for the simple reason that processes are in different address spaces. When you perform an IPC call, you mu
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   by rpearl 15y ago

   IPC is very expensive. Furthermore, firefox 4 does have some separate processes (not per tab). Note that chrome's default is not per-tab either.
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   by rpearl 16y ago

   Just a bit of commentary... Note that it's not "one process per tab". Chrome has "process-per-site", and "process-per-tab" (where a "tab" is not one tab, but a bunch of related tabs.) https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/
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   by rpearl 16y ago

   Well, that's not a true statement. Can you point out what wording implies that? If it really is unclear, we'll change it. The note "Important: phones may change from one category to another when manufacturers and carriers release updates."
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   by rpearl 16y ago

   Boycotting Amazon is completely boneheaded. They have every right to not host Wikileaks content. Regardless of whether this was the result of government pressure or not is moot. Well, I shouldn't say "boneheaded." You have every right to re