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		ramidarigaz on Jan 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: High Performance Networking in Google Chrome I don't believe he actually means the OS Kernel. It's a userspace "kernel" in that it coordinates the traffic and behavior for all of the subprocesses.

igrigorik on Jan 31, 2013 [–]

Right. The "browser kernel" process, which is the coordinator for all the network activity, and a dozen other things.

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