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Definitely. A modern octa-core Exynos shouldn't be chugging along to render a blog post. It's absurd.
by task_queue 11y ago
Definitely. A modern octa-core Exynos shouldn't be chugging along to render a blog post. It's absurd.
- mschuster91 11y agoNo matter how many cores are in your phone, web browsing will always be able to use only a single thread. JS is inherently multi-threaded, the only thing that could use multiple threads is the IndexedDB bullcrap (which ain't properly supported by iOS anyway), and background loading of async resources (which is network constrained on mobile, so MT doesn't help).
- pcwalton 11y agoThis is totally untrue. Layout can run off the main thread if engineered properly. Painting and compositing already do in some browsers. Layout, painting, and compositing are inherently parallel problems, so any one of these tasks can saturate all your cores if done carefully. Iframe JS can run in multiple threads if engineered right.