On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:07 AM, bugs@pettay.fi <bugs@pettay.fi> wrote: > The update rate depends on the device. Tablet updates reach way beyond >> 120HZ and even my 3D mouse clocks in at about 500 events/s. And a major >> obstacle for a realtime input device is when the realtime app trying to >> use it stutters/jitters every quarter second because of 180-250ms GC-pauses >> >> > That long GC pauses are bugs in the implementations. File some bugs on all > the browser engines you see it (after testing latest nightly builds). > It doesn't matter if they're bugs (I often see them in conjunction to array buffer allocation). Even at the best of times the GC-pauses are no less than 90ms, and even if you got it down to 60ms, that's still more than 5 frames @80hz. Until you get GC-pauses down to ~5ms or so, any GC use will introduce unpleasant stuttering/jittering. And even then it's a close call to not miss a frame.
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