On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Simon Fraser <simon.fra...@apple.com> wrote:
> It allows attackers to know even more about my system, exposing more data > for fingerprinting. > People can already approximate this today. Approximations are fuzzy so this might hurt performance if you're not a popular platform or change how the browser implements workers. > Do you really want a page to know that you have a fancy-pants 24-core Mac > Pro rather than a little Mac mini? > Yes! If I have 24 cores ready to do work and the page can put them to use, I would like it to do so. At the same time, if I just have a old mac mini, I don't want the page to launch 24 workers as that will exhaust my memory and cause contention. > > On May 5, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Filip Pizlo <fpi...@apple.com> wrote: > > I like this. Personally, I don't see any downside. > > Is there a bug (on bugs.webkit.org), and if not, can you create one? :-) > > -Phil > > > On May 5, 2014 at 4:49:35 PM, Rik Cabanier (caban...@gmail.com) wrote: > > All, > > there's a thread on blink-dev [1] and whatwg [2] to create a new parameter > on the navigator object that returns the maximum number of tasks that can > run in parallel. [3] > > Is this something that WebKit would support? > > 1: > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/B6pQClqfCp4 > 2: > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2014-May/254200.html > 3: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/NavigatorCores > > >
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