On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Ben Kelly <bke...@mozilla.com> wrote:

>
> On May 21, 2016 9:44 AM, "Honza Bambas" <hbam...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > If it's nsPipeInputStream then it's definitely alright.  OTOH, we do
> copy the memory, right?  I was somehow hoping that you just expose the
> IPC-allocated buffers via your own implementation of nsIInputStream,
> avoiding coping to an XPCOM pipe.
>
> That would be nice, but no.  IPC doesn't even support passing dependent
> strings as far as I know.
>
> This first iteration is just an actor like any other.  I didn't change the
> IPC internals at all.
>
Oh, I think understand better now.  I wrote a bug to implement this idea in
the future:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1274815

Ben
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