The old code read the entire file into memory before starting parsing. In one place it did this with URLPreloader::ReadZip() (for default pref files), and in another place it did this with URLPreloader::ReadFile() (for user pref files). It was simplest to leave that code unchanged.
Nick On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM, David Teller <[email protected]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, why is the read handled by C++ code? > > On 12/03/2018 10:38, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > > I don't know. But libpref's file-reading is done by C++ code, which > passes > > a string to the Rust code for parsing. > > > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
