Re: [HighResTime] Web Worker support

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:20 AM, James Simonsen <simonjam@chromium.org>wrote:

> Sorry for being late getting back to this thread...
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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com>wrote:
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>>  Ben,****
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>> If you’re just looking at deltas, differences between two time values,
>> the origin shouldn’t matter. Is there a case where deltas wouldn’t be good
>> enough and you would want the absolute numbers?****
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>> If we were are to provide the origin time as a separate value (e.g.,
>> performance.originTime), it would need to be in the same sub-millisecond
>> resolution in order to be comparable with other DOMHighResTimeStamps; the
>> spec currently suggests one thousandth of a millisecond. Double precision
>> may be able to support that for milliseconds since Unix epoch.
>>
>
> I don't fully understand the originTime. Is this effectively a global
> monotonic clock across all processes (workers and tabs)?
>

Ping? Are we going to do anything about this?

James