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by bzbarsky 5021 days ago
> Multicore really doesn't help web rendering very much.

There are people working on changing that, for what it's worth.
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erichocean 5021 days ago
Indeed. Blossom[0], a mobile MVC client framework for business apps, is being updated as we speak to split apps into a UI/animation thread, with the application/model layer/network in a web Worker on a separate thread.

Disclaimer: I wrote Blossom.

[0] https://github.com/erichocean/blossom

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bzbarsky 5021 days ago
There is also work from the other side, to make the browser engines take more advantage of parallelism. That's more what I was referring to.

Blossom sounds pretty neat!

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erichocean 5021 days ago
Why are people downvoting this?
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