whats the deal with fire fox
Dick Davies
rasputnik at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 14:42:07 UTC 2006
On 11/07/06, Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> This problem is called 'busy-waiting' and is caused by very poor programming.
> See this bug report:
> <https://launchpad.net/products/firefox/+bug/20765>
That's not busy-waiting. It's doing things (rendering pages), hence
the slowdown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_wait
Writing 'clearly busy-waiting' in a ticket doesn't make you any less wrong, and
Using misleading phrases isn't going to get your problem fixed any sooner.
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