On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Bobby Holley <[email protected]> wrote: > I gave a lightning talk at Whistler about MozPromise and a few other new > tools to facilitate asynchronous and parallel programming in Gecko. There > was significant interest, and so I spent some time over the past few weeks > untangling them from dom/media and hoisting them into xpcom/. > > Bug 1188976 has now landed on mozilla-central, MozPromise (along with > TaskQueue, AbstractThread, SharedThreadPool, and StateMirroring) can now be > used everywhere in Gecko. > > I also just published a blog post describing why MozPromises are great and > how they work: http://bholley.net/blog/2015/mozpromise.html > > Feedback is welcome. These tools are intended to allow developers to easily > and safely run code on off-main-thread thread pools, which is something we > urgently need to do more of in Gecko. Go forth and write more parallel code! > > bholley > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
Does MozPromise have the same "skipping the event loop" behavior that JS promises have? Or is that limited just to StateMirroring? - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
