[webkit-dev] setTimeout as browser speed throttle

[Mike Belshe]

I think you've already seen this, but in case you haven't - here is the bug
where I've been tracking this.  Every report I've seen related to minimum
timers is referenced in here.
   http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=792

I think the evidence is pretty compelling that <10ms and >1ms is a better
value.

Mike




On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Darin Fisher wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>
>> 2) Consider making WebKit's default minimum timer limit lower - something
>>> like 3ms-5ms. I don't know what we would do to verify that this is "safe
>>> enough" or who would do the work. Maybe Hyatt?
>>>
>>
>
> We are in the process of verifying this now ;-)  Our eyes and ears are open
> (have been) for bug reports related to this.  Right now, we are happy to be
> trying something radical.  In the absence of problem reports, when do we
> declare success?
>
>
> Based on what Peter said, it sounds like there has been at least one
> problem report. There was at least one more vague report made informally in
> John Resig's blog comments. Maybe we need to start by agreeing what counts
> as "absence of problem reports".
>
> However, by way of comparison, we added a 10ms clamp three and a half years
> after the first Safari beta was released to the public, as it took about
> that long to get enough bug reports to convince us that we had to do it for
> compatibility.
>
> Given that, I think we may want to find some more active way to look for
> potential problems and potential benefits.
>
> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
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