On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Oliver Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > It's also horrific in the context of a browser as it's effectively an > arbitrary > length call blocked on IO.
That's a good description of what I was proposing. Yes it would block the event loop. Perhaps it could be useful if (say) the module were available in a local disk cache but not loaded into memory: the cost of I/O to a disk cache may be reasonable, but not the cost of a completely new fetch from the network. Ihab -- Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
