[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 23865] Safari can be frozen by rapidly adding timers

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23865





------- Comment #4 from darin at apple.com  2009-02-10 12:38 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> From looking at the code, it can be happening for a long time. Timers are
> implemented using CFRunLoopAddTimer. According to Apple docs, the run loop
> fetches the timers first and input second. So if there is always a timer ready
> to be scheduled/fired, no input goes through.

If that analysis is correct, then we do not need two timers in the test()
function to make this happen, as we don't need exponential growth to have the
problem. I suspect that's not the entire story.


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