I do not see the reason of having a specification lecture also be a stress-test.
As Aaron already said I just want to be able to read the specs. A button at the top maybe to switch to the stress-test ? Diego On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/7/10 5:43 PM, Aaron Boodman wrote: > >> I hear this every so often. Do we really need the spec to double as a >> browser stress test? I mean, there are actual test suites nowadays. I >> just want to read the spec. >> > > I'll just note that part of the reason it's a "stress test", apart from the > old Firefox issue, is that it tries to be clever and not hang the > browser.... which actually causes the browser to do a lot more work. On my > machine here, if the spec's script were not trying for the clever thing, it > would take about 1-2 seconds (with a completely hung browser during that > time) to do what it currently takes anywhere from 8 to 25 seconds to do, > during which time the browser is largely unresponsive anyway. > > -Boris >
