On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Lars Hansen <lhan...@mozilla.com> wrote: > We do think there are > architectural improvements that hardware manufacturers, operating systems, > and browsers can make [19], and we intend to investigate them.
I think that the work you cite is promising. However, listening to this presentation, there's a little soundbite that seems relevant to this point. Forgive any transcription errors, but I think that David (the author of the paper) says: "For example, Javascript is currently considering adding shared memory. That would destroy this entire model." -- start at 27:00 for the question and this answer. Do you have a strategy for dealing with this problem? The UCSD paper doesn't provide any suggestions from what I can see. A major issue here is that once we ship a feature like this, it's very difficult to un-ship if we find that we need to change things to deal with issues. Given that we know those issues, having a framework for dealing with those issues ahead of time would allow us to gain some confidence that we aren't setting ourselves up for some serious pain. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
