Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread
> 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 info you want to see from the thread pool. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:23 PM David Teller wrote: > > 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 > attempting to do in case of crash. > > Is anything like this planned? > > Cheers, > David > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread
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 attempting to do in case of crash. Is anything like this planned? Cheers, David ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Re: Deprecation of NS_NewNamedThread
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 progress for a while and I'm thrilled to see it land. The proliferation of threads has lots of impacts; the one I know about impacts performance and the shape of pageload profiles that we see on mobile. Thanks for making that a little easier to reason about, now and in the future! Nick ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
