On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
What about yieldStorageMutex? Yield is enough different from unlock
that I don't think it'll leave developers looking for the lock
function. Yield fits pretty well since this is essentially
cooperative multi-tasking. StorageMutex is good because that's what
its actually affecting.
+1 ... "yield" is a good established term for this sort of behavior.
(At a higher level, though, I'm still uncomfortable with semantics
that allow a poorly-written worker thread to indefinitely lock up JS
code running in web pages.)
—Jens
