Randell Jesup writes:

> 1) running on TBPL (AWS) the internal timings reported show the specific
>    test going from 30 seconds to 450 seconds with the patch.
> 2) on my local system, the test self-reports ~10 seconds, with or
>    without the patch.

> Note: the timer in question is nsITimer::TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE with
> 10ms timing.  And changing it to 100ms makes the tests reliably green.

Do you know how many simultaneous hardware threads are emulated?

Is it possible that the thread using TYPE_REPEATING_PRECISE has a
high priority, and so it would occupy the single hardware thread
when there is no spare time available for anything else?

The time taken for the test run might depend on the "anything
else" running.
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