Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:36:44 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 16:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:21:10PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Well what other cases are there? Can we enumerate them and come up > > with similar solutions? > > Javascript has timers. We execute rather a lot of javascript from > sources we can't influence at all.
Which brings me to yet another gripe I've got with firefox, _WHY_ does it run javascript for tabs I can't see? Simply freeze the interpreter.
Then again, what does JavaScript do with these timers? I don't really see how javascript/random-native-binary are really different, something needs doing. What something?
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