Preethi Natarajan wrote:
OK, this is my question:
A thread is currently painting a JPEG image. Halfway through, the bulk
of data from the transport layer belongs to a different object (that
should be painted on the same web page. Note that the thread is not done
painting the JPEG image and it is expecting more data from the server to
complete the JPEG image).
- What does the painting thread do now?
Now when? The typical flow of data is that the transport thread passes
some data to the main thread and indicates which request the data
belongs to (where a "request" is basically a communication abstraction
between the two threads here). The main thread does whatever it wants
with that data at this point.
Does that help? If not, I'm afraid I'm just not following your
question, probably because we're making very different assumptions about
the threading model and data flow in Gecko.... Perhaps you could
explain your assumptions?
-Boris
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