- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:41:24 -0800
- To: public-web-perf@w3.org
Hi Perf minded people. I just noticed that window.performance.now is defined to be an attribute. So the syntax is: x = window.performance.now; This feels a bit strange to me since generally it feels like attributes represent a more constant value. I.e. that they only change in response to explicit actions like function calls. In particular. I would have expected foo.bar == foo.bar; to always test true, for basically any 'foo' object and 'bar' property name. However that obviously isn't the case for performance.now. It seems a bit more intuitive that foo.bar() == foo.bar(); might not test true (at least in a non-functional language like JS). Obviously this isn't inherently the case. A getter can take just the same types of actions as a function. It just seems like bad programming style to do so. How would people feel about changing it to window.performance.now()? / Jonas
Received on Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:42:22 UTC