On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Andrew McCreight <amccrei...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > 3) Supports async pipe streams using a new PSendStream actor from > > *child-to-parent*. I have plans to add support for parent-to-child, but > I > > don't have a consumer yet and we need to figure out some issues with > > PBackground targeting worker threads. > > > > One place that this would be very useful would be for networking. Right > now, the various networking protocols send data to the child by calling > NS_ReadInputStreamToString(), then copying the string into an IPC message, > which is bad because it requires a lot of contiguous memory addresses, and > also has a fair bit of bloat from all of the copies (bug 1110596, bug > 1263028). > That would be a good thing to try. I wonder how many consumers assume nsIChannel::OnDataAvailable() provides a fixed length stream, though. Here is the bug to track parent-to-child pipe streaming: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1274343 Thanks. Ben _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
