Comments on: Chrome and the multi-core cloud

By: Ant Evans

Ant Evans — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:25:07 +0000

To take advantage of multiple cores, an app simply needs to be multi-threaded.

By: Lee Peters

Lee Peters — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:00:16 +0000

Downloaded and installed w/o any problems.
Some very nice features and, on my system, VERY FAST loading pages. About the same as FF 3.0.1
Very well documented!
Lots of Help pages.
But the problem google is going to have against FF is the lack of add ons for now.
Add ons and extensions are very valuable to me, so while Chrome is nice, and fast, it lacks what I like in a browser.

By: Ed Clarke

Ed Clarke — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:34:57 +0000

“Each having its own memory and its own copy of the global data structures.” And using up more memory with its multiple copies.

It’s not currently possible to view more than one tab at a time, so all those other processes should be idle. I fail to see the performance advantage, although stability is useful.

By: pcernie

pcernie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:00:01 +0000

Good summary, cheers!

By: David Wright

David Wright — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:54:28 +0000

It should offer increased stability, if a single page causes the rendering engine, javascript engine, plug-in etc. to go rouge… It apparently goes back to the old days of the Mac OS and gives the tab a “sad tab” face and kills the process…

A case of wait and see, I guess, as to how well that functions in practice.

By: Alex Pepper

Alex Pepper — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:34:37 +0000

But will it offer any improvement for someone using a single core processor?