Re: Implementing the web timing spec

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/12/10 8:01 AM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> That is unfortunate, but there's optimization you can do - instead of
> storing the timestamps as msec-since-epoch, you could store the startup
> timestamp once, and only store the differences to that, for which a
> PRUint32 might suffice. Or you can use the document-load-start timestamp
> instead of startup. That way, you only need half the memory.

That's a good way to end up with behavior that violates the spec due to 
overflowing counters, so I don't think it would in fact be a valid 
optimization.

-Boris
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