Do we have any plan to be able to use NS_NewURI() off-main-thread? I thought that was included here, but I see now that it is not. The initial URL parse OMT is important for truly being able to remove all our "bounce to the main thread for URL stuff" legacy code.
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Valentin Gosu <valentin.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I would like to announce that with the landing of bug 1447194, all nsIURI > implementations in Gecko are now threadsafe, as well as immutable. As a > consequence, you no longer have to clone a URI when you pass it around, as > it's guaranteed not to change, and now it's OK to release them off the main > thread. > > If you need to change a nsIURI, you should use the nsIURIMutator interface > (in JavaScript - just call .mutate() on the URI) or the NS_MutateURI > <https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/test/gtest/ > TestURIMutator.cpp#22> > helper class (in C++). > > More info here: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Necko/nsIURI > > If you find any bugs, make them block bug 922464 (OMT-nsIURI) > > I'd like to thank everyone who helped review the patches, especially Honza > Bambas who reviewed most of my patches. > > Cheers! > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
