On 18/11/2015 16:04, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: > 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.
Are these problems inherent in ctypes or is it just that our implementation is broken? > 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 >> -- -==- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
