On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 1/6/17 2:34 PM, Bill McCloskey wrote:The patch that allows tab switch
> painting
>
>> while content JS runs isn't going to be backed out. If the tab switch
>> paints allow JS to run, and that JS is from the same context as the
>> content
>> JS that was interrupted, then that would be bad.
>>
>
> What does "same context" mean here?  An in-thread worklet would be
> same-JSContext/JSRuntime/whatever, but different-global and
> shared-nothing (at least observably from JS) with any web pages.
>
> Is the badness you refer to page-observable JS-level reentry, or something
> deeper in our engine internals?  Because the former is not an issue with
> worklets, I expect.


The badness is just page-observable JS-level reentry (that I know of at
least). So that sounds good. Thanks.

-Bill
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