On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Claus Reinke <[email protected]> wrote: > The promises-aplus spec has a note that confuses me > > https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec#notes > > 1. In practical terms, an implementation must use a mechanism such as > setTimeout, setImmediate, or process.nextTick to ensure that onFulfilled > and onRejected are not invoked in the same turn of the event loop as the > call to then to which they are passed. > > I have not yet been able to decide whether DOMFuture has a > similar provision, or how this note is meant to be interpreted.
Juan already pointed out the "queue a task" language, so this is answered. > The aspect that worries me is that this note is attached not to the > creation of promises but to the definition of 'then'. Is that because > of the implicit return lifting (if 'then' callbacks do not return promises, > wrap the return in a new promise), or is there something else going on? Yes. The promise itself may be fulfilled synchronously - the resolver callback is called immediately, and can immediately call "r.accept(val)" if it wants. The important part is that chained callbacks (through .then(), .done(), etc.) be handled async. > As long as the 'then' callbacks return Promises, the idea of resolved > Promise creation as left and right identity of 'then' > > Promise.of(value).then(cb) = cb(value) > promise.then(Promise.of) = promise > > would seem to require no additional delays introduced by 'then' (promise > creation decides semantics/delays, 'then' only passes on intermediate > results). > > Could someone please clear up this aspect? How is that note meant > to be interpreted, and do other Promise/Future specs have similar > provisions? > > Claus > > PS. Prompted by this blog post: > > http://thanpol.as/javascript/promises-a-performance-hits-you-should-be-aware-of/ The reason you want to maintain asynchrony, even when it's possible to go ahead and run callbacks async, is so that the operation of futures is *predictable*. It doesn't matter (and it's unobservable) whether a future is pending or fulfilled - you just attach a callback to it, and it'll run no earlier than the next event-loop tick, so the rest of the code in your function can depend on the fact that it hasn't run yet. If it sometimes runs synchronously, then you can't depend on that - the rest of the code in your function may be assuming that certain outside variables don't change, but the promise might tweak them synchronously, or might leave them alone until it runs async. ~TJ _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
