On 11/01/2013 11:52 AM, David Bruant wrote: > That requires weakrefs in some way, I'm afraid. I'm interested if > other solutions can be proposed to achieve object-granularity > communication across machines (I'm sure Mark Miller will be interested > as well). >
Good use case. What if you had a serializable but still not iterable WeakMap? Or rather, a synchronizable WeakMap. The cross-vat (I'm mentally translating this to "cross-runtime") references would be registered in this map. The timing of synchronization updates would be a little funky. Honestly, I haven't thought this through at all. > One use case of cross-vat communication is the remote debugger > protocol implemented in Firefox/OS. I haven't taken the time to run > over related bugs and follow its development (and probably won't for > now, because it'd be a lot of work), but it'd be interesting to think > of how a cross-vat protocol would have made its implementation > easier/safer/less error-prone/less leak-prone. > Anyone knows how leaky the remote debugger protocol is now? CC'ing jimb _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list dev-tech-js-engine-internals@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
