<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Simon Fraser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.fraser@apple.com" target="_blank">simon.fraser@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">It allows attackers to know even more about my system, exposing more data for fingerprinting.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>People can already approximate this today. Approximations are fuzzy so this might hurt performance if you're not a popular platform or change how the browser implements workers.</div><div>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Do you really want a page to know that you have a fancy-pants 24-core Mac Pro rather than a little Mac mini?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes!</div><div>If I have 24 cores ready to do work and the page can put them to use, I would like it to do so.</div><div>At the same time, if I just have a old mac mini, I don't want the page to launch 24 workers as that will exhaust my memory and cause contention. </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class=""><div><br><div><div>On May 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Filip Pizlo <<a href="mailto:fpizlo@apple.com" target="_blank">fpizlo@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0px">I like this. Personally, I don't see any downside.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0px">
Is there a bug (on<span> </span><a href="http://bugs.webkit.org/" target="_blank">bugs.webkit.org</a>), and if not, can you create one? :-)</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;margin:0px"><br></div>
<div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-Phil</div><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"><br></div></div><br><p>On May 5, 2014 at 4:49:35 PM, Rik Cabanier (<a href="mailto:cabanier@gmail.com" target="_blank">cabanier@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite"><span><div></div><div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>there's a thread on blink-dev [1] and whatwg [2] to create a new parameter on the navigator object that returns the maximum number of tasks that can run in parallel. [3]</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is this something that WebKit would support?</div><div><br></div><div>1: <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6pQClqfCp4" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6pQClqfCp4</a></div>
<div>2: <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-May/254200.html" target="_blank">http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-May/254200.html</a></div><div>3: <a href="http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores" style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores</a></div>
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