Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources from Boris Zbarsky on 2014-09-02 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2014)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:58:08 -0400
To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
Message-ID: <5405CCF0.1030507@mit.edu>

On 9/2/14, 4:34 AM, Yoav Weiss wrote:
> * They're likely to add implementation complexity, since these instructions
> must be read by the preloader, which at least for Blink & Gecko is on the
> parser thread, and cannot "do" JS AFAIK.

Fwiw, in Gecko it could, but it would add some overhead to that thread 
(instantiating a JS runtime on it)...

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2014 13:58:37 UTC