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viraptor
on May 17, 2015
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It may have less performance for various reasons, but it can't be less concurrent by definition. Previously there was no concurrency.
mraison
on May 17, 2015
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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
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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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