Re: [ScriptYielding] setImmediate clamping returns. from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-08-19 (public-web-perf@w3.org from August 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:21:22 -0400
To: public-web-perf@w3.org
Message-ID: <5211C772.7@mit.edu>

On 8/12/13 8:36 PM, James Robinson wrote:
> Here's a much simpler resolution for your dilemma:  setImmediate() is
> actually not a very good idea, so nobody has an incentive to implement
> it and there's no dilemma at all.

There is incentive to implement from people writing demos that use 
setImmediate with fallback to setTimeout and those then running much 
slower in browsers that don't implement setImmediate.

-Boris

Received on Monday, 19 August 2013 07:21:53 UTC