<div dir="ltr">(I am not in favor of this feature but not strongly opposed neither but..)<br><br>I think a similar analogy is:<br><br>$ make -jX #where X is the number of physically available cores.<br><br>If
I am working/browsing/text editing, etc and building say WebKit in the
background, I really do not set X to actually number of cores. When I
do, it actually slows my whole system.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Oliver Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oliver@apple.com" target="_blank">oliver@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On May 7, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Rik Cabanier <<a href="mailto:cabanier@gmail.com">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>
<br>
</div>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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--Oliver<br>
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