Hi everyone, Threadsafe URLs have been high on everybody's wishlist for a long while. The fact that our nsIURI implementations weren't thread safe meant that hacks had to be used to use a URI off the main thread, such as saving it as a string, or bouncing back to the main thread whenever you had to use the URI in any way.
A few weeks ago we landed MozURL. This is an immutable threadsafe wrapper for rust-url. While it's not yet ready to fully replace our existing URL implementations, it's good enough to avoid using the hacks I just mentioned. For examples of how to use it go to the header file [1] or the gtests [2] Work is also under way to provide a threadsafe implementation of nsIURI that we eventually hope to replace our other URI parsers, and to improve the rust-url parser to be faster than our current nsStandardURL implementation [3]. [1] http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/MozURL.h [2] http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/test/gtest/TestMozURL.cpp [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1394906#c2 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
