Your daily reminder that JavaScript exec stresses single-core performance and therefore will be slow on slow cores regardless of core count.
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No, the rest of the browser is mostly also constrained by a single core.
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: yeah, it's nuanced. But usual critical path for devs is loading and we can't run ahead/thread when script blocked.
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Do/can Service and Web Workers run on separate cores?
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I hope you guys will do something about this at some point
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: the fundamental model of JS exec is run-to-completion. Not pre-emptable.
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This is the part where you and I always part ways. It's so weird to sell a platform, but for as little use as possible.
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If you're backing JS, go all in man.
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what about running one script per core? Would that be possible? I only use js for a small UI manipulations. So I don't care
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Yeah, but CPU cycles are cheap!! ;)
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