Le 24/11/2013 02:23, Jonas Sicking a écrit :
On Nov 23, 2013 2:04 PM, "David Bruant" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Le 22/11/2013 03:33, Jonas Sicking a écrit :
>>
>> We could enable sync IO APIs in workers while still allowing the
>> worker thread to remain responsive to messages from the main thread.
>> One solution is the API in [2]. Using that API the main thread can
>> send a error-response to a sync request for IO before the IO has
>> finished.
>>
>> [2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013OctDec/0142.html
>
> I'm not sure I understand this proposal. If you allow messages from
main thread while waiting for I/O, aren't you re-introducing the same
complexities that sync APIs are expected to stay away from?
No, because the main thread can always "return early" and not wait for
the result from the IO before sending a message.
And returning early cancels the I/O and the related pending message (and
stack)?
David
