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That is indeed some badass JS, but why does it send my CPU to 100% and turn both the fans on my MacBook Pro, I thought only Flash did that?

by kreek 16y ago

frou_dh 16y ago
Time for Mr Daring Fireball to release the hounds on Javascript being enabled. No, wait..
- sudont 16y ago
  It didn't freeze my computer or stutter my mouse like Flash or a runaway ietester.exe process, despite being at the same CPU usage. (50%) Also, I'd say that this allows the browser vendor opportunity to deal with runaway scripts in a better way than the nil of control Flash gives. Good reason for a multi-process architecture as well.
  - frou_dh 16y ago
    Even without Flash installed, my Safari often locks (beachballs) for a few seconds when I'm working with a bunch of tabs, particularly when closing one. Flash is weird. I don't particularly like it for usability/security reasons, yet I haven't experienced this dire OS X performance that others always talk of.
    - tvon 16y ago
      I think you may have larger problems than Safari.
      - frou_dh 16y ago
        Go on. Assuming you don't mean my mental state, it's not a gunked-up system; I'm always careful with that.
        sudont 16y ago
        If your system's fine, it might be ram usage. Seriously, it's probably a system issue, my four year old laptop runs Safari extremely well.
tomlin 16y ago
You must be mistaken. The fan was installed for Flash. This is why Flash needs to die; so Apple can exclude the fan and make a smaller, lighter notebook.
- nitrogen 16y ago
  I'm not familiar with Apple-related net memes, but is this a joke or is it the actual reason for having a fan? If it's not Flash that makes the CPU run at 100%, it could be anything else. I'd hate to have a notebook that I couldn't run at 100% CPU if I wanted to. Let me encode video on the go, or run a parallel build. Removing the fan when there's still a thermal vulnerability would be unwise.
  - mikeklaas 16y ago
    I'm not sure what to say except: yes, it is a joke.
  - chc 16y ago
    The background: A lot of Mac users (myself included, in the interest of disclosure) feel that Flash's performance on the Mac is piss-poor in the average case (e.g. making the fans go wild even when not doing anything all that fancy) and advocate for Web standards like HTML and JavaScript to be used in its place wherever possible, because at least those can be improved independent of Adobe, whom they perceive to be lax in supporting niche platforms. Other people feel that this first group is deluded by Apple propaganda and naive to believe that JavaScript performance will be any better than Flash. Thus, the parent was mocking these JavaScript advocates on the basis that the scripts on this page were performing badly on the GP's system.
    - gregschlom 16y ago
      And the fact that this script is made by Apple itself only adds to the irony
      - melling 16y ago

That is indeed some badass JS, but why does it send my CPU to 100% and turn both the fans on my MacBook Pro, I thought only Flash did that?

by kreek 16y ago

That is indeed some badass JS, but why does it send my CPU to 100% and turn both the fans on my MacBook Pro, I thought only Flash did that?

frou_dh 16y ago

Time for Mr Daring Fireball to release the hounds on Javascript being enabled. No, wait..

sudont 16y ago
It didn't freeze my computer or stutter my mouse like Flash or a runaway ietester.exe process, despite being at the same CPU usage. (50%) Also, I'd say that this allows the browser vendor opportunity to deal with runaway scripts in a better way than the nil of control Flash gives. Good reason for a multi-process architecture as well.
- frou_dh 16y ago
  Even without Flash installed, my Safari often locks (beachballs) for a few seconds when I'm working with a bunch of tabs, particularly when closing one. Flash is weird. I don't particularly like it for usability/security reasons, yet I haven't experienced this dire OS X performance that others always talk of.
  - tvon 16y ago
    I think you may have larger problems than Safari.
    - frou_dh 16y ago
      Go on. Assuming you don't mean my mental state, it's not a gunked-up system; I'm always careful with that.
      - sudont 16y ago
        If your system's fine, it might be ram usage. Seriously, it's probably a system issue, my four year old laptop runs Safari extremely well.

tomlin 16y ago

You must be mistaken. The fan was installed for Flash. This is why Flash needs to die; so Apple can exclude the fan and make a smaller, lighter notebook.

nitrogen 16y ago
I'm not familiar with Apple-related net memes, but is this a joke or is it the actual reason for having a fan? If it's not Flash that makes the CPU run at 100%, it could be anything else. I'd hate to have a notebook that I couldn't run at 100% CPU if I wanted to. Let me encode video on the go, or run a parallel build. Removing the fan when there's still a thermal vulnerability would be unwise.
- mikeklaas 16y ago
  I'm not sure what to say except: yes, it is a joke.
- chc 16y ago
  The background: A lot of Mac users (myself included, in the interest of disclosure) feel that Flash's performance on the Mac is piss-poor in the average case (e.g. making the fans go wild even when not doing anything all that fancy) and advocate for Web standards like HTML and JavaScript to be used in its place wherever possible, because at least those can be improved independent of Adobe, whom they perceive to be lax in supporting niche platforms. Other people feel that this first group is deluded by Apple propaganda and naive to believe that JavaScript performance will be any better than Flash. Thus, the parent was mocking these JavaScript advocates on the basis that the scripts on this page were performing badly on the GP's system.
  - gregschlom 16y ago
    And the fact that this script is made by Apple itself only adds to the irony
    - melling 16y ago