Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Tobie Langel
On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey wrote: > >> The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles >> all of the CPUs you mentioned properly. >> >> Intel CPUs with hyperthreading enabled report logical cores as double >> the h

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Adam Barth
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tobie Langel wrote: > On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier wrote: > > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey wrote: > > > >> The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles > >> all of the CPUs you mentioned properly. > >> > >> Intel CPUs

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread James Greene
If we're going to choose a name that abstracts the implementation details (and rightly so), why not just go with `navigator.concurrency`? Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On May 4, 2014 8:50 AM, "Adam Barth" wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tobie Langel >wrote

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 3 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: > > Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator > that reports the number of cores [2]. > [1] > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6pQClqfCp4 > [2] http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores > Some

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Adam Barth
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: > > > > Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to > navigator > > that reports the number of cores [2]. > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6p

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: > > > > Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to > navigator > > that reports the number of cores [2]. > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6p

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 12:13 AM, Tobie Langel wrote: > >> On May 4, 2014, at 7:45, Rik Cabanier wrote: >> > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey wrote: >> > >> >> The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles >> >> a

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Eli Grey
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > or you have to examine > permissions that the application is requesting, and explicitly grant it > the right to run on your machine I am not aware of this in any platforms. Can you provide one example of a platform that requests an explicit per

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Adam Barth writes: > Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator > that reports the number of cores [2]. As far as I can tell, this > functionality exists in every other platform (including iOS and Android). > Some of the use cases for this feature have been disc

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sun, 4 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: > > The world of computing has changed since 2009. At that time, the iPhone > 3G had just been released and Apple hadn't even released the first iPad. > > The needs of the web as a platform have changed because now the web > faces stiff competition from ot

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-04 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sun, 4 May 2014, Adam Barth wrote: > > > > The world of computing has changed since 2009. At that time, the iPhone > > 3G had just been released and Apple hadn't even released the first iPad. > > > > The needs of the web as a platform have