Material index

[ghost]

There's a lot of material linked from all different places. I reviewed everything but it was difficult to find all of it. Posting my notes in case anyone wants an index.

Overview

• Readme
• Metaexplainer: Prioritized Task Scheduling

Depth

Current

• scheduler.postTask(): Prioritized postTask API
• TaskSignal
• Propagation: Propagating and Inheriting postTask Priority
• Inversion: Priority Inversions with scheduler.postTask()
• scheduler.yield()

Historic

• scheduler.yield(): Yield and Continuation

Security

• scheduler.postTask(): Self-Review Questionnaire
• scheduler.postTask(): Security Considerations
• Specification Security Considerations
• Specification Privacy Considerations
• scheduler.yield(): Self-Review Questionnaire

Design

• Userspace schedulers
• Userspace Task Models
• Thoughts on API Requirements
• Built-in API
• API Options
• Controller-Based postTask API

Prior Art

• postMessage(): setTimeout with a shorter delay
• requestAnimationFrame()
• requestIdleCallback()

Specification

Prioritized Task Scheduling

Polyfill

scheduler-polyfill

Ancillary

• Implementation Status
• Interested Partners
• Scheduling case studies

Obsolete

• isFramePending() (abandoned)
• isInputPending() (available but discouraged)
• requestPostAnimationFrame() (abandoned)
• APIs to improve JS schedulers (lists obsolete APIs)

Chronologic

• <2021-02-25> [doc] Prioritized Fetch Scheduling
• <2020-10-19> [talk] Main Thread Scheduling APIs {slides}, TPAC WebPerfWG
• <2020-09-28> [doc] postTask: Enabling App-Specific Priorities
• <2020-08-19> [doc] Scheduling Overhead Analysis
• <2019-11-19> [talk] Main Thread Scheduling APIs {slides}, WebPerfWG call
• <2019-11-14> [talk] Main Thread Scheduling APIs {slides}, BlinkOn 11
• <2019-11-11> [doc] postTask: Lightweight Priority Sandboxing
• <2019-11-08> [doc] postTask Signals: Subtasks vs. TaskQueues
• <2019-10-25> [doc] Signal-Based postTask Design
• <2019-10-08> [doc] postTask: Implementing Subtasks using Signals
• <2019-06-11> [talk] Main Thread Scheduling APIs {slides}, WebPerfWG F2F
• <2019-04-26> [doc] Native Web Scheduling MVP
• <2019-04-05> [doc] Priority-Based Web Scheduling
• <2018-11-13> [talk] A Quest to Guarantee Responsiveness, Chrome Dev Summit
• <2018-10> [talk] API for Main Thread Scheduling {slides}, TPAC WebPerfWG
• <2017> [talk] A Cartoon Intro to Fiber (preliminary, userspace scheduler)

[mmocny]

This is sweet!