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Well, yes, but if instead of single-threading you desynchronize the (event-driven) UI from the backend processing *and rendering* work, it can get fast again. (After all, what else is an X server?)
In defense of Firefox
Posted May 29, 2008 16:47 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
That is, of course, instead of *multi*-threading. :)
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