Saturday, 26 March 2016

Re: multi-core processors

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 06:14:29AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > NetSurf is single-threaded, by design. It won't take direct advantange
> > of multiple cores. It'll still be faster on those systems which support
> > multiple CPUs, because the OS can run on one while NetSurf runs on
> > another.
>
> It does beg the question. What happens when NetSurf runs in VRPC on a Win
> 7 machine with a multi-core processor? Does VRPC take advantage of
> multiple cores?

No idea, but NetSurf can do nothing to help in that respect.

B.

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