We have build this Internet around the idea that one can safely execute code on a machine and isolate it from other code on the same machine. This is an incredibly fragile assumption.
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We use high precious timers for things like profiling/benchmarking and in real-time applications like VR/AR/video games. It would kinda suck if gaining access to these API's required more permission hoop jumping.
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Yes, but I think it's a reasonable position not to give an embedded language (e.g. Lua or JS) access to time.
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Totally
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But for many apps high-precision time API's aren't relevant, so requiring increased privileges would be fine.
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