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Timer interrupt experiment decreases performance
One of my friends told me that they found a flag that decreases performance, so I checked it out using browser benchmarks. The one in question is called Timer interrupt experiment. I put it through Motion Mark (https://browserbench.org/MotionMark1.1/) and found that it did perform slightly worse(on Beta). The flag claims that it reduces power consumption, but I was wondering if there was a way to do that without decreasing performance. Elliot Kirk
Hi cjc2112, in general that is what we are trying to achieve. We run these experiments periodically to see how these sorts of changes affect the system as a whole. If the battery gains are good, and the performance hit is reasonable, we might offer this as a setting, or make it the default behavior when on battery. But if the performance drops more than a reasonable amount, or the battery gains are negligible under real world conditions, then the flag disappears, and the feature never makes it into the product. Thanks - Elliot
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Hi cjc2112, in general that is what we are trying to achieve. We run these experiments periodically to see how these sorts of changes affect the system as a whole. If the battery gains are good, and the performance hit is reasonable, we might offer this as a setting, or make it the default behavior when on battery. But if the performance drops more than a reasonable amount, or the battery gains are negligible under real world conditions, then the flag disappears, and the feature never makes it into the product. Thanks - Elliot