On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.alme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Davide Andreoli > <d...@gurumeditation.it> wrote: >> I'm starting this new thread to further discuss promises, thus the tag >> [YetAnotherPromiseThread] :) > > [snip] > >> The topic here is: do we really want to allow instant resolution of >> promises? >> For "instant resolution" I mean a promise that will call the user callbacks >> as soon as the callbacks are "connected", thus in the middle of the user >> code. (we took as an example a cached promise value) > > I think the fulfillment must happen immediatelly and the user > of the promise must be able to value_set/fail immediatelly. > However, as raster has mentioned some place else, the callback > call could be delayed to the next event loop idler or job, so > the callback is not called directly from efl_promise_then. > > I'm not sure what cedric has implemented, but both cases are valid > IMO. However, calling from the next event loop job/idler is a lot > easier to reason about it, so I'm inclined to like it better.
BTW, this is how one of the first implementations of Eina_Promise did. We later decided to remove the dependency of loop from Eina_Promises, so this delayed callback call was not possible anymore. > [snip] > > Regards, > -- > Felipe Magno de Almeida -- Felipe Magno de Almeida ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
