[anthonybsd]

Consumer applications? Doubt it. Not a whole lot of consumer-oriented applications parallelize that well to be honest.

[qaq]

look at how many threads your Chrome is running

[whyever]

Only Servo parallelizes single-page rendering as far as I know.

[anentropic]

but they're moving in that direction

[MLR]

This review has a CPU web test section, you can see performance is mostly a function of IPC and clock speed.

[yborg]

All but one set (for the active tab) of which are probably idle or effectively so most of the time.

[caf]

Even crusty old Microsoft Excel parallelises worksheet recalculation.

[smitherfield]

Sure, but Excel is presumably one of the most optimized (in terms of the amount of money and brainpower devoted to optimizing it) applications in existence.

[caf]

That's not the feeling you get when you use it, it seems more like the underlying engine hasn't really changed a great deal in 20 years.

[smitherfield]

That's the price of backward compatibility. But I think it's a bit of a "Seinfeld is unfunny"[1] situation; if Microsoft decided to save on the nine-figure budget and outsource Excel development to, say, your favorite purveyor of antivirus software, you'd notice real fast.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny (apologies for the TVTropes link at night!)

[anentropic]

don't you run more than one of them at a time though?