On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Oliver Hunt <oli...@apple.com> wrote:
> > On May 7, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Rik Cabanier <caban...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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. > Sure. However, a page can already do this today. This will just give the author a way to make a semi-informed decision. Without this, he might just spin up too many threads and starve the rest of the system. > You need to stop thinking in terms of a user wanting only one thing to > happen at a time. > I'm not sure if I follow. How would this be any different from a regular desktop application?
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