I gave a lightning talk at Whistler about MozPromise and a few other new tools to facilitate asynchronous and parallel programming in Gecko. There was significant interest, and so I spent some time over the past few weeks untangling them from dom/media and hoisting them into xpcom/.
Bug 1188976 has now landed on mozilla-central, MozPromise (along with TaskQueue, AbstractThread, SharedThreadPool, and StateMirroring) can now be used everywhere in Gecko. I also just published a blog post describing why MozPromises are great and how they work: http://bholley.net/blog/2015/mozpromise.html Feedback is welcome. These tools are intended to allow developers to easily and safely run code on off-main-thread thread pools, which is something we urgently need to do more of in Gecko. Go forth and write more parallel code! bholley _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
