Executing JavaScript code will definitely involve the processor cache and a high-resolution timer is accessible via browser performance API.

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Fritzing is written in C++ and Qt, and there simply aren’t enough skilled devs to work on it. Future versions of Fritzing will be written in JavaScript.

The search giant has announced that starting with Chrome 86, it will ship a new feature that limits JavaScript timer wake ups in background web pages.

Google is testing changes to the JavaScript timers for background tabs in Chrome that improve battery usage by 13% to 28%. Users can enable the feature in the Canary version of Chrome and Edge.

JavaScript is supported by every major browser and is the only web programming language built for both client-side and server-side. For some time, JavaScript was strictly a front-end language, but ...

How much? Google extended a laptop’s battery by two hours in its testing (36 random open tabs; Javascript timer wake-ups limited to one every minute).

Google is planning to add a new Chrome feature that could lead to drops of almost 30% in battery usage by throttling JavaScript timers in background tabs.

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The change in Javascript timer wake-ups should apply to all the major versions of Chrome including Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, and Android.