On 21/03/2015 01:06, Ant wrote: > On 3/20/2015 2:03 AM, Barry Edwin Gilmour wrote: >> stan wrote on 20/03/15 15:21: >>> Does SM 2.33 support dual core architecture on Windows7 32 bit? >>> I mean does it take advantage of the dual core by increasing a speed. >>> >> Yep! Compared to single-cores and hard-drives, SM utilises >> multiprocessors and SSDs. > > Hmm, when SM hogs CPU, I only see a single core used? Maybe it is my > very old, updated Windows XP Pro SP3?
Historically SeaMonkey is a single process multithreaded application. With current versions the plugin container runs in a second process. The (in progress) Firefox Electrolysis (e10s) project moves Firefox to a multiprocess architecture. E10s is still a work in progress but if you turn it on, the contents of all the tabs run in a single separate process. Eventually each tab content may be a separate process. Each process runs on a single core. I don't know if Gecko implements it's own thread manager or uses OS threads. The OS may or may not run separate threads on separate execution units. The CPU may or may not be multithreaded. Intel high end CPUs are hyperthreaded. AMD Bulldozer modules are clustered multithreading. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
