Re: [dev-servo] More planning

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Double
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > For example, Rust can't, in general, stop you from writing "if (!x)" instead > of "if (x)" like I did in a recent NSS bug. Depending on what 'x' is and how it was obtained it's possible it could be stopped. If it's a null pointer check for e

Re: [dev-servo] Parallelism in a CSS parser

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Double
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:44 AM, L. David Baron wrote: > For some languages (e.g., HTML, and possibly also CSS) parsing could > be relatively parallizable by splitting up the input into chunks and > parsing each chunk by speculating on a likely state at the start of > the chunk, having slight over