coming soon to a ES6 draft near you...
Allen On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Daira Hopwood wrote: > I was reading the draft specification of an ES6 promise API in > <https://github.com/domenic/promises-unwrapping/blob/master/README.md>, > and noticed that the definition of microtasks seems underspecified. > > I see this has been discussed to some extent in > <https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/139>. However, > it seems to have been implicitly assumed that the execution model is > sequential. Given that things called "tasks" in several other languages > are executed in parallel, it seems to me that this assumption should be > made explicit. That is, it should be explicitly stated that microtasks > must be executed to completion sequentially with respect to other code > and other microtasks. (Otherwise, there can be data races on accesses > to shared locations, which is clearly not desirable or intended.) > > -- > Daira Hopwood ⚥ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
