According to the UMAs, starting up SW takes several hundred milliseconds.
https://crbug.com/561209#c14
> SW startup on the beta channel M51. Android/Win (ms):
> 50p: 222.7/46.48
> 75p: 400.0/91.44
> 95p: 1467/867.9
> 99p: 4230/6135
It typically takes 100ms from mousedown to click event, and 300ms from mouseover to click event. ( https://crbug.com/234036#c1 )
So if we can start SW on those events, we can hide the startup latency.
I'd like to implement this feature behind flag first.
And then we will measure the impact.
Comment 1 by horo@chromium.org
, Jun 1 2016