On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Nathan Froyd <nfr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Smedberg > <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > > I've been unhappy with the fact that our event loop uses refcounted > objects > > by default. *Most* runnables are pure-C++ and really don't need to be > > refcounted/scriptable. > > I've been thinking about this too. gfx has a separate thread pool > that was created partly because of the desire to be Gecko-free and > partly because of the overhead that nsIRunnable has. It would be nice > to eliminate one of those objections. Making this change would also > bring down bloat from vtables and essentially-useless methods. > > > I'm asking you to consider unifying these two things by making our event > > loop work more like chromium and just using c++ objects without a > refcount > > by default? Then to post a scriptable event to an event loop you'd have > to > > have it own a separate scriptable object. > > I'd like to make this happen if Kyle doesn't. > Do we have measurements that demonstrate that this would have a substantially positive performance impact? Generally, the world would be safer if we always used smart pointers rather than bare pointers, so it seems like we should have some strong evidence before pushing in the other direction. -Ekr > > -Nathan > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
