[whatwg] Structured clone algorithm on LocalStorage

Jeremy Orlow jorlow at chromium.org
Wed Sep 23 13:59:24 PDT 2009


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM, João Eiras <joaoe at opera.com> wrote:

>
>  and the more browser UI jank users will be sure to experience.
>>
>
> If I may, as a side note, locking the UI is a user agent specific issue. No
> specification requires user agents to lock their UIs while scripts execute.
> Opera has achieved this long time ago, by properly dividing ecmascript
> execution with all the other tasks, and the new browsers with multi-process
> architecture also do not suffer from this problem.
>

You're right; I misspoke.

It is true, however, that any web pages in the same event loop will be
janky.  And multi-process browsers can't always put every tab in its own
process, so this can even affect multi-process browsers.
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