> On May 5, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> As some of you may know, Rust is approaching its 1.0 release in a couple of >> weeks. One of the major goals for Rust is using a rust library in Gecko. >> The specific one I'm working at the moment is adding rust-url as a safer >> alternative to nsStandardURL. > > Will this affect our ability to make nsStandardURL thread-safe? > > Right now there are various things, mainly related to addons, that are > forcing us to only use nsIURI on the main thread. However this is a > major pain as we move more code off the main thread and as we do more > IPC stuff. > > We've made some, small, steps towards providing better addon APIs > which would enable us to make nsIURI parsing and handling possible to > do from any thread. > > Would this affect this work moving forward? Or would a Rust > implemented URL-parser/nsIURI be possible to use from other threads > once the other blockers for that are removed?
Valentin, if you’re serious about this effort, lets start by collecting requirements of this rewrite. Thread safety is important. Compat and correctness (talk to Anne!). Performance. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
