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0 pointsmicrocolonel8y ago0 comments

This is completely unrelated. This is a feature which their platform completely lacks, if they added this feature it would not have an effect on the energy efficiency of code which does not use it.

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om28y ago

In a sense you're right. But we also want to make sure WebRTC websites don't blow out your battery, and we went to some effort to make sure it uses efficient video encoding/decoding paths. That said, this was not a majority of the effort.

nottorp8y ago

Besides battery life, Chrome on the Mac prevents sleep indefinitely sometimes. If you check with pmset -g assertions, you'll see Chrome saying "WebRTC has active PeerConnections".

No thanks Google, you shouldn't get to decide when my PC goes into sleep mode.

I really hope Safari is better than that...

Edit: just as i'm typing this, Chrome has:

pid 19325(Google Chrome): [0x001ccbbb00018b19] 01:55:40 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "WebRTC has active PeerConnections"

2 hours for... what? I have no idea which page is guilty.

om28y ago

I believe Safari will block sleep only if there's actively playing video or audio in a foreground tab.

microcolonelOP8y ago

That seems more like a leak than normal behaviour.

If you go to Window > Task Manager it'll tell you which PID corresponds to which tab.

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matthewmacleod8y ago

But it would affect the efficiency of code that does use it, which is the whole point.

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om28y ago

nottorp8y ago

Besides battery life, Chrome on the Mac prevents sleep indefinitely sometimes. If you check with pmset -g assertions, you'll see Chrome saying "WebRTC has active PeerConnections".

No thanks Google, you shouldn't get to decide when my PC goes into sleep mode.

I really hope Safari is better than that...

Edit: just as i'm typing this, Chrome has:

pid 19325(Google Chrome): [0x001ccbbb00018b19] 01:55:40 NoIdleSleepAssertion named: "WebRTC has active PeerConnections"

2 hours for... what? I have no idea which page is guilty.

om28y ago

I believe Safari will block sleep only if there's actively playing video or audio in a foreground tab.

microcolonelOP8y ago

That seems more like a leak than normal behaviour.

If you go to Window > Task Manager it'll tell you which PID corresponds to which tab.

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matthewmacleod8y ago

But it would affect the efficiency of code that does use it, which is the whole point.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse