On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Andrew McCreight <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Ben Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 3) Supports async pipe streams using a new PSendStream actor from > > *child-to-parent*. I have plans to add support for parent-to-child, but > I > > don't have a consumer yet and we need to figure out some issues with > > PBackground targeting worker threads. > > > > One place that this would be very useful would be for networking. Right > now, the various networking protocols send data to the child by calling > NS_ReadInputStreamToString(), then copying the string into an IPC message, > which is bad because it requires a lot of contiguous memory addresses, and > also has a fair bit of bloat from all of the copies (bug 1110596, bug > 1263028). > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
