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findjashua on Aug 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choic...

could you please explain in layman terms what exactly is bad about the way multi-process is implemented?

hokkos on Aug 16, 2014 [–]

It is explained here : https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2 and here : http://webkit.sed.hu/blog/20110120/webkit2-memory-consumptio...

Chrome duplicate tons of data structures, Webkit2 shares more, but Firefox without multi process is more efficient.

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