On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Mike Belshe <mbel...@google.com> wrote:
> • We should call V8::IdleNotification in situations other than a
>> hidden tab. A long-lived tab might go for quite a while without being
>> hidden in this way: the user might activate another app, hide Chrome
>> itself, or just use multiple windows instead of tabs.
>>
>
> We should try to avoid this. The V8 team has (rightfully) resisited hooks
> to allows the application to call gc() directly, because once you do that,
> invariably, some smart programmer decides to call gc() all the time!! :-)
> V8IdleNotification is basically a route to get at gc(). Let's not abuse
> it.
>
I don't think it's unfair to call IdleNotification() on the foreground tab
if e.g. the user has not done anything with it for five or ten minutes.
PK
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