Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on May 12, 2013 8:22 pm wrote:
> You still need to be actually doing something that maxes out your four real cores while still needing
> more resources. On a phone. I'm talking a real world task that would be done more than a fraction of
> the userbase, so no talk about a couple games that can theoretically be a tiny bit faster with 4C/8T
> versus 4C, or people running a browser with >4 tabs in a process-per-tab model where even the inactive
> ones are maxing out the CPU (Flash could do this, but luckily that abomination is rapidly dying)

Modern JavaScript code can be every bit as bad as Flash if misused. Nowadays you can even spawn multiple threads from a single page:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Using_web_workers