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		mraison on May 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multiprocess Firefox You can have concurrency with only one thread. What you cannot have is parallelism. More context here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1050222/concurrency-vs-pa...

viraptor on May 17, 2015 [–]

Yes, and I believe that before the layout didn't happen concurrently with other stuff in the browser. It was called on a change and the rest of processing waited. Is that not right?

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