Re: famous multi-process architectures

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> "Google got inspired by Postgres: they use the same
>  multi-process architecture for their browser as Postgres
>  already features for many years. Simply because it
>  provides better crash-safety than threaded applications."

That's a heck of a stretch to say they were "inspired" by
Postgres. A multi-process model is hardly a unique development
of Postgres, and it's not like we don't still have crash problems:

"process exited abnormally and possibly corrupted shared memory"
"terminating connection because of crash of another server process"

I suspect Chrome doesn't have the same shared memory requirements
that a database does, of course.

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