This will make it possible to map individual chunks of HTML back to when they were flushed.
Some possible uses come to mind:
Highlight the time in the waterfall when the LCP image element was delivered on the wire.
Provide a UI that shows the raw HTML response body and match selection or cursor position to where in the waterfall entry that chunk of HTML was delivered.
This adds a "filtered" size entry to the chunk timings that carries the decompressed size of resources that are content-encoded (gzip, brotli).
This will make it possible to map individual chunks of HTML back to when they were flushed.
Some possible uses come to mind: