Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread

2020-03-04 Thread Kris Wright
> Is anything like this planned? Thank you for pointing this out! You're right, there is no debugging information similar to the thread name available at the moment. We haven't got any features like this planned but this sounds like something very useful so I recommend you file a bug for any debug

Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread

2020-03-02 Thread David Teller
That's cool! I wonder if there is (or will be) a way to somehow preserve the naming part of NS_NewNamedThread, which is sometimes precious for debugging, i.e. somehow attach to the background thread a debugging information in addition to the stack that would let us analyze what the thread was

Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread

2020-03-02 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Kris, others working on this, On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 6:51 AM Kris Wright wrote: > *tl;dr: To create new one-off threads using NS_NewNamedThread, you need to > add them to an allowlist. Lots of cases of async work can be done on the > background thread pool.* > I've been watching this