[webkit-dev] Feature Announcement: Moving HTML Parser off the Main Thread

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Eric Seidel wrote:
> 
> The core goal is to reduce latency -- to free up the main thread for 
> JavaScript and UI interaction -- which as you correctly note, cannot be 
> moved off of the main thread due to the "single thread of execution" 
> model of the web.

Parsing and (maybe to a lesser extent) compiling JS can be moved off the 
main thread, though, right? That's probably worth examining too, if it 
hasn't already been done.

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