[Techtalk] more cores, more slows

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Akkana Peck schreef op di 19-06-2012 om 18:25 [-0700]:
> Carla Schroder writes:
> > It seems the more powerful hardware gets, the more software sucks it up, so it 
> > still feels like driving an old 486 SX.
> 
> So true!
> 

> 
> Rudy Zijlstra writes:
> > I am happy that FireFox and Chrome are essentially single threaded, so
> > they typically use only a single CPU. I have a tendency to just leave
> 
> Are they?  I thought separate tabs typically used separate processes
> (at least in Chrome) and thus separate CPUs.
> 
I'm thinking that cause i've never seen them manage to use more then 1
core to 100%

Cheers,


Rudy