Re: [android-developers] how many threads does android browser generate?

Thanks for your reply, Dianne. If I run the Android browser as my only application in Gingerbread on a quad-core smartphone, and the page to be loaded is stored locally in memory (no network delay etc, in this case, the browser is single-threaded only as no network connection?), I wouldn't see any performance scaling (or worse, as the OS may move the threads to another core less busy in a circle) from a single-core smartphone, everything else being the same?

On 31 Aug 2011, at 21:00, Dianne Hackborn wrote:

> Gingerbread isn't designed for multi-core CPUs. The browser doesn't try to create threads to use multiple CPUs, it creates threads to have multiple network connections.
>
> Besides networking, browsers are pretty intrinsically single-threaded anyway. The complicated stuff all needs to run in one thread: DOM rendering, JavaScript, etc.
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> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jack Harvard <jack.harvard@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to understand how many threads Gingerbread generates in order to understand how the browser performance scale with multicores? For example, if "a few " means 2, that means 4 cores wouldn't scale the browser performance by anywhere close to 4 times. I understand that Gingerbread doesn't officially support SMP, sometimes browser does crash on multicore platforms, it's not a problem for me though.
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> On 31 Aug 2011, at 18:57, Dianne Hackborn wrote:
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> > Oh and Gingerbread wasn't designed to run on anything but single CPU systems, so that's irrelevant to the question of the base platform. Of course people shipping Android modify it in various ways, and the browser is often one of the things they modify.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@android.com> wrote:
> > A few. Why? :)
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> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Jack Harvard <jack.harvard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wondering how many threads does android browser generate? Suppose it's Gingerbread running on a dual-core or quad-core ARM processor.
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