- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 00:07:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jason Weber <jweber@microsoft.com>
- cc: James Robinson <jamesr@google.com>, "public-web-perf@w3.org" <public-web-perf@w3.org>, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com>
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Jason Weber wrote: > > There will always be buggy code in the world and people will always > abuse API's including setImmediate. I have faith web developers will be > able to use the new API appropriately. I have faith that some will. But I'm also convinced that some high-profile sites will use it to do something expensive in a tight loop, they won't notice it's pegging their CPU because they're testing on a desktop, and then browser vendors will force a clamp of some sort to save CPU cycles. And then we're back to setTimeout(..., 0). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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