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Subject: Re: [PATCH, v10 3/3] cgroups: introduce timer slack controller
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?