Re: [whatwg] Proposal: requestBackgroundProcessing() from Rik Cabanier on 2014-02-20 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from February 2014)

From: Rik Cabanier <cabanier@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:35:25 -0800
To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Ashley Gullen <ashley@scirra.com>, James Robinson <jamesr@google.com>
Message-ID: <CAGN7qDA2BmWk_JQA7zoWeL=awkV7t-iDvA9Hn3-qFN=7ddW=JA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ashley Gullen <ashley@scirra.com> wrote:
>
> > The host needs to keep simulating the world even when no network events
> are
> > occurring. That can't happen if rAF isn't firing and timers only run at 1
> > Hz.
> >
>
> This sounds like work that should be done in a worker.  Worker timers
> aren't throttled when in the background, and this is exactly something
> workers are for.
>

Is WebRTC available in a worker?

Received on Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:35:51 UTC