I guess Brendan is saying that if a continuation was natively built ar the '.' then the risk is that not acquiring the resource would result in a zombie. But if the runtime could build a continuation at the '.' then it could come back to it when the resource was acquired. Brendan is that layman's description or did I get it wrong?
Kam On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:52 PM, [email protected] wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
