The JS promise implementation came out of a desire to use promises in add-ons and devtools amongst others. I believe the C++ implementation came out of the DOM spec. I'm not sure why we need both.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Andreas Gal <andreas....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I just saw that grepping through the tree. Both completely > independent, too. On the upside, this might solve Jan's problem. > > Andreas > > > Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >> On 7/30/13 7:36 AM, Andreas Gal wrote: >> >>> For that we would have to implement Promise via IDL. Definitely >>> possible. All you need is a bit IDL and some JS that implements it. It >>> would be a lot slower than the jsm since it wraps into C++ objects that >>> call into JS, but in most cases that doesn't really matter. >>> >> >> Wait. Why do we have multiple Promise implementations now? :( >> >> -Boris >> ______________________________**_________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/**listinfo/dev-platform<https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform> > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
