Google Chrome and process-based design

[Alexander Panek]

davidl wrote:
> 在 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:08:27 +0800，Alexander Panek 
> <alexander.panek at brainsware.org> 写道:
> 
>> Denis Koroskin wrote:
>>> You already know that Google is making a buzz with their new Chrome 
>>> browser.
>>> Go download and test it if you didn't do yet (www.google.com/chrome/, 
>>> Windows only for now).
>>>  It is heavily multi-threaded and uses separate process for each 
>>> window, each tab, each plugin etc. When one tab hags or a plugin 
>>> crashes, nothing bad happens. The browser continues working as if 
>>> nothing changes. It even has a built-in process manager, try opening 
>>> youtube.com and killing a flash player plugin.
>>>  You can read the whole story at www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
>>>  This is an example of process-based designs implementation which is 
>>> what D2 aims at, and it is clearly a success.
>>
>> It's funny, just a week ago or so Bartosz Milewski published a blog 
>> entry about how processes scale better than threads..
>>
>> I tried Chrome and I'm really impressed by how responsive it is. Also, 
>> the UI is kept very minimalistic, yet it doesn't lack any features. 
>> The website-application feature is also a very handy thing.
>>
>> Overall, I'd say Google Chrome is quite an impressive product. Would 
>> love having a D port. :P
> 
> Who will ever want to port a such big project? 437MB Source tarball(WTF, 
> a browser bigger than OS source base)

I suppose you noticed the emoticon (":P") at the end of that sentence.


> Google goes the wrong way. It just extends the current web crap not 
> reinvent something smarter.

Wrong or right, it doesn't extend anything. Google just happened to 
release a new, blazingly fast browser. I don't know in what way this can 
be attributed as "web crap" or similar. Do you have any better idea?