Chrome 47 Beta Brings Cooperative Multi-Tasking, Splash Screens On Android

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 47 Beta Brings Cooperative Multi-Tasking, Splash Screens On Android

Google rolled out the Chrome 47 Beta web browser today for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, OS X, and Windows...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-47-Beta

[microcode]

Cooperative multitasking as in windows 95/98 era?

Cooperative multitasking works very well when each task has a good understanding of the lifecycle of the others. In this case there are only two tasks and they're pretty simple.

All multitasking in a JavaScript runtime is cooperative, and it works okay for a single application.

[carewolf]

Cooperative multitasking works very well when each task has a good understanding of the lifecycle of the others. In this case there are only two tasks and they're pretty simple.

All multitasking in a JavaScript runtime is cooperative, and it works okay for a single application.

Not if you use workers. Workers are separate threads, but yes, if you don't use them all events in JavaScript are handled on the same thread.

[randomizer]

Javascript is a complete joke when it comes to multiple threads.

All JavaScript applications are single-threaded (excluding Web Workers of course).

[asdfblah]

How about they add VAAPI/VDPAU to chromium...

[bug77]

Cooperative multitasking as in windows 95/98 era?

Windows 3.1 had cooperative multitasking.
Knowing that Google has a habit of doing the right thing, this is probably some localized usage, aimed at optimizing the use of resources. Of course, I don't know that for sure.