Re: [whatwg] Preloading and deferred loading of scripts and other resources

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> 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)...


In that case, I may be wrong about Blink as well... I'll make sure if it is
in fact an issue there.