Re: [web-audio-api] (JSWorkers): ScriptProcessorNode processing in workers (#113)

> [Original comment](https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415#20) by Robert O'Callahan (Mozilla) on W3C Bugzilla. Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:39:06 GMT

(In reply to [comment #20](#issuecomment-24244414))
> Developers have to be conscious about performance and avoiding layout reflows
> anyway, why should this API be any different?

One problem is that developers don't control all the pages that might possibly be sharing the same thread. No browser puts every page on its own thread. So even if you write your page perfectly, you're still vulnerable to latency caused by poorly-written pages sharing your main thread.

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