On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Julian Seward <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/01/17 16:36, Brian Hackett wrote: >> Any thoughts or comments? > > It would be really good if testing for data races with TSan could be > an integral, routine part of this development process. We've seen in > the past that after-the-fact race detection and fixing is a slow and > difficult process, and it would be much better to do this as you go > along. Plus, having something that can validate intuitions about > race-freedom (or otherwise) of code is in itself helpful for hacking.
Yeah, I agree completely about how hard it is to fix races in an existing system. Using ProtectedData should help a lot with making sure we have a coherent synchronization model in place, but using that class *plus* TSan running in automation would be great. Brian _______________________________________________ dev-tech-js-engine-internals mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-js-engine-internals
