From 014d84d5ef221e832120081ab07e8ac91b17a3dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasa Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 14:53:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update parallel connections info --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 56c7440..c32d7e8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ A rendering engine is a software component that takes marked up content (such as WebKit is an open source rendering engine which started as an engine for the Linux platform and was modified by Apple to support Mac and Windows. The rendering engine is single threaded. Almost everything, except network operations, happens in a single thread. In Firefox and Safari this is the main thread of the browser. In Chrome it's the tab process main thread. -Network operations can be performed by several parallel threads. The number of parallel connections is limited (usually 2–6 connections). +Network operations can be performed by several parallel threads. The number of parallel connections is limited (usually 6-13 connections per hostname). The browser main thread is an event loop. It's an infinite loop that keeps the process alive. It waits for events (like layout and paint events) and processes them.