<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Benjamin Poulain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benjamin@webkit.org" target="_blank">benjamin@webkit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On May 7, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Rik Cabanier <<a href="mailto:cabanier@gmail.com" target="_blank">cabanier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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You need to stop thinking in terms of a user wanting only one thing to happen at a time.<br>
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And there are actually many bug reports about native apps using too much CPU when the user is not expecting it (simple tasks and/or the process is not frontmost).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>If a simple task is using a lot of CPU, that is a bug and users will move to an application that is more efficient. If my calendar were to drain my battery, I would switch to a calendar app that doesn't do that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for background tasks making foreground tasks slow, this is something that could be handled by the operating system/browser process (ie <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684828(v=vs.85).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684828(v=vs.85).aspx</a>)</div>
<div>Most users would expect that if one tab mines bitcoins, the tab that runs a game would be slower.</div></div></div></div>