Re: [selectors4] no way to select visible children

On 7/20/15 11:38 AM, Marat Tanalin wrote:
> 20.07.2015, 21:03, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>:
>> Browsers (rightly) are not willing to do cycle checking in the middle
>> of style resolution.
>
> That's just a way for browsers to get better.
>
>> Such a thing would tank performance *so bad* and
>> there's no real way to engineer around that.
>
> Are there test implementations and results of performance testing of such implementations? Otherwise that's just guessing.

What Tab said is reasonable. Given the current implementation, there is 
no easy way out.

If you come up with an algorithm that solves the problem in low-order 
polynomial time, share it with us and we can discuss implementation.

Benjamin

Received on Monday, 20 July 2015 21:25:39 UTC