Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-03 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Eli Grey wrote: > The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles > all of the CPUs you mentioned properly. > > Intel CPUs with hyperthreading enabled report logical cores as double > the hardware cores. Depending on the version and configurati

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-03 Thread Eli Grey
The proposal specifically states using logical cores, which handles all of the CPUs you mentioned properly. Intel CPUs with hyperthreading enabled report logical cores as double the hardware cores. Depending on the version and configuration of the Samsung Exynos Octa big.LITTLE CPUs, you will get

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-03 Thread Rik Cabanier
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator > that reports the number of cores [2]. As far as I can tell, this > functionality exists in every other platform (including iOS and Android). > Some of the use cases

[whatwg] Proposal: navigator.cores

2014-05-03 Thread Adam Barth
Over on blink-dev, we've been discussing [1] adding a property to navigator that reports the number of cores [2]. As far as I can tell, this functionality exists in every other platform (including iOS and Android). Some of the use cases for this feature have been discussed previously on this mail