On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Kris Maglione <kmagli...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> > While we're thinking about the prefs service, is there any possibility we >> could enable off-main-thread access to preferences? >> > > I think the chances of that are pretty close to 0, but I'll defer to Nick. > I agree, for the reasons that Kris mentioned. > I need another thread to be able to query an extensible set of pref names > that are not fully known at compile time. > This is a good example of how prefs is a far more general mechanism than I would like, leading to all manner of use and abuse. "All I want is a key-value store, with fast multi-threaded access, where the keys aren't known ahead of time." Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
