- From: Diego Perini <diego.perini@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 09:45:47 +0200
I do not see the reason of having a specification lecture also be a stress-test. As Aaron already said I just want to be able to read the specs. A button at the top maybe to switch to the stress-test ? Diego On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote: > On 7/7/10 5:43 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: > >> I hear this every so often. Do we really need the spec to double as a >> browser stress test? I mean, there are actual test suites nowadays. I >> just want to read the spec. >> > > I'll just note that part of the reason it's a "stress test", apart from the > old Firefox issue, is that it tries to be clever and not hang the > browser.... which actually causes the browser to do a lot more work. On my > machine here, if the spec's script were not trying for the clever thing, it > would take about 1-2 seconds (with a completely hung browser during that > time) to do what it currently takes anywhere from 8 to 25 seconds to do, > during which time the browser is largely unresponsive anyway. > > -Boris > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100708/28134c36/attachment-0001.htm>
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