On May 15, 2014, at 1:26 AM, Rik Cabanier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Ehsan Akhgari > <[email protected]>wrote: >> ... >>> >>> Make it possible for authors to make a semi-informed decision on how to >>> divide the work among workers. >>> >> >> That can already be done using the timing attacks at the waste of some CPU >> time. > > > It's imprecise and wasteful. A simple attribute check is all this should > take.
If we want to support games on mobile platforms like Firefox OS, then this seems like a pretty important point. Do we really want apps on buri (or tarako) wasting CPU, memory, and power to determine that they should not spin up web workers? Ben _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

