Re: [HighResTime] Web Worker support

Sorry for being late getting back to this thread...

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Jatinder Mann <jmann@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  Ben,****
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> If you’re just looking at deltas, differences between two time values, the
> origin shouldn’t matter. Is there a case where deltas wouldn’t be good
> enough and you would want the absolute numbers?****
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> If we were are to provide the origin time as a separate value (e.g.,
> performance.originTime), it would need to be in the same sub-millisecond
> resolution in order to be comparable with other DOMHighResTimeStamps; the
> spec currently suggests one thousandth of a millisecond. Double precision
> may be able to support that for milliseconds since Unix epoch.
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I don't fully understand the originTime. Is this effectively a global
monotonic clock across all processes (workers and tabs)?

James