[webkit-dev] setTimeout as browser speed throttle

[Justin Haygood]

Fwiw, ActionScript 3 implements a Timer API we could use a basis:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/utils/Timer.html

It basically is an OOP based timer/interval API. 

-----Original Message-----
From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org
[mailto:webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Garen
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:58 PM
To: Maciej Stachowiak
Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] setTimeout as browser speed throttle

> Or there is option 3:
>
> 3) Restore the clamp for setTimeout and setInterval to 10ms for  
> compatibility, and add a new setHighResTimer API that does not have  
> any lower bound.

I'd like to tweak this suggestion a bit:

Let's make this new timer API object-oriented, so it can be both less  
slow and less crazy than setTimeout / setInterval. There are many  
"Timer" APIs in open source JavaScript libraries on which we could  
base a new API.

Perhaps a Timer object would always be high resolution, or perhaps it  
would have an "isHighResolution" bit.

Cheers,
Geoff
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