- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:30:55 -0400
On 7/22/10 3:21 AM, Ryan Heise wrote: >> Note also that said engines are removing said support for various >> reasons (performance penalties are a large part of it). > > Clearly, it has been shown possible to implement threads efficiently in > other languages The current browser competitive landscape is such that a 2% difference in benchmark times ends up exaggerated completely out of proportion by the marketing and the "journalists" that so love to republish press releases. Even an efficient implementation of threading will give you more ovehead than that, typically. > and so I do wonder how the decision processes of those > VM developers might be affected if the spec where changed to mandate > threads. They're probably ignore the spec, just like other specs that don't have buy-in from the people they're supposed to be binding on have been ignored in the past.... -Boris
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