Well, the main problem is that js-ctypes is very hard to use, even harder to use without causing memory leaks or crashing the process. Think the worst parts of both C and JavaScript together.
Cheers, David On 18/11/15 08:57, Philip Chee wrote: > On 14/11/2015 18:21, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: >> Actually, Sqlite.jsm does most of its work off the main thread. >> >> But yes, it would clearly be possible to reimplement Sqlite.jsm using >> js-ctypes for workers. If you wish to work on this, I can try and help >> mentoring. > > I thought people were being encouraged to avoid using js-ctypes because > of "problems". However nobody has gone into detail about what those > alleged problems are. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform