Tech detail: Another product is simulating CPU throttling by regularly suspending their main thread. It should be possible to do that from our profiler sampling loop, somewhere around there: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/5a4aaccb28665807a6fd49cf48367d47fbb5a19a/tools/profiler/core/platform.cpp#3220
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Tech detail: Another product is simulating CPU throttling by regularly suspending their main thread. It should be possible to do that from our profiler sampling loop, somewhere around there: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/5a4aaccb28665807a6fd49cf48367d47fbb5a19a/tools/profiler/core/platform.cpp#3220 (And all that code could be copied/reused elsewhere if we wanted to throttle without using the profiler.)