Re: PSA: Dispatching background tasks just got easier!

2020-01-01 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/13/19 2:25 PM, Kristen Wright wrote: Now that Bug 1584568 just landed I wanted to mention the new background thread pool for general purpose and blocking IO runnables. Kristen, The new setup sounds awesome. Thanks to you and Nathan for working on this!

Re: PSA: Dispatching background tasks just got easier!

2019-12-20 Thread Aaron Klotz
\o/ This is super exciting! Thank you! On 12/13/2019 12:25 PM, Kristen Wright wrote: Hello! Now that Bug 1584568 just landed I wanted to mention the new background thread pool for general purpose and blocking IO runnables. Existing one-off threads, as well as new jobs

Re: PSA: Dispatching background tasks just got easier!

2019-12-20 Thread Mike Conley
Ahh this is great, and so refreshing. I'm so happy we're starting to bring some order to our threading situation! Thanks so much to you and your team! On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 11:51, Kristen Wright wrote: > Hello! > Now that Bug 1584568 just landed I wanted to >

PSA: Dispatching background tasks just got easier!

2019-12-16 Thread Kristen Wright
Hello! Now that Bug 1584568 just landed I wanted to mention the new background thread pool for general purpose and blocking IO runnables. Existing one-off threads, as well as new jobs that you may want to run async in the background, can go to the new background thread