Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources from Boris Zbarsky on 2014-08-28 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from August 2014)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:34:41 -0400
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <53FFA071.9020107@mit.edu>

On 8/28/14, 5:31 PM, Yoav Weiss wrote:
> Wouldn't that be something that is best handled as part of HTTP? e.g.
> sending a flag with the request indicating whether the resource can be
> progressively decoded or not?

Can we define "progressively decoded"?

Firefox is moving to a setup where we will progressively parse scripts, 
and possibly progressively bytecode-compile, and possibly progressively 
native-code-compile in the cases when we do AOT compilation, but 
obviously not progressively execute.

-Boris

Received on Thursday, 28 August 2014 21:35:06 UTC