- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 14:56:09 -0400
On 5/27/11 1:10 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > Also, consider a third possibility: currently, the part of<script > async> that's captured by the first timing in Ian's/Boris' example > (whether it's parsing or compilation or whatever) blocks the main > thread in browsers, even though it's async. (Right?) This is true at the moment in Gecko+Spidermonkey. I can't speak for others. > Suppose that for whatever reason, it wouldn't be easy for implementers to move this > work to a separate thread. (Boris/James/other implementers: is this > true?) Nothing involving threads is "easy". In Gecko's case, there is a definite desire to try to do this, but no timeframe yet. -Boris
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