Your semi-annual reminder: if a browser eng says you can't have something "because it would be slow", read their code. Odds are it's bad.
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Replying to @slightlylate
@slightlylate I remember asking you for direct access to the garbage collector in V8 before getting this exact answer at EdgeConf :-)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@slightlylate because... browser vendors trust themselves more than they trust you?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@chofter: well, they do (the bastards) but more that GC makes lots of security stuff harder. THAT SAID, see: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/08/using-requestidlecallback?hl=en …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@slightlylate interesting. Are you suggesting that if they were better coders they could decouple GC and security? :-)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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