[webkit-dev] support for navigator.cores or navigator.hardwareConcurrency

Oliver Hunt oliver at apple.com
Wed May 7 14:47:12 PDT 2014


On May 7, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Rik Cabanier <cabanier at gmail.com> wrote:
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> When would I as a user, not want a page or web application to be as fast as possible? Has a user ever complained about a desktop app that uses too many of his CPU's? I think Oliver's point was that other processes might fight for the same CPU resources but that is not unexpected for users.

What happen if i go to your website while i'm doing something else in the background?  What if i'm playing a game while waiting for my machine to do something else? What if your page is in the background? Or my battery is running low.

You need to stop thinking in terms of a user wanting only one thing to happen at a time.

--Oliver

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