[dev-servo] Meeting notes 1/12 (CSS parser changes; Rust upgrade postmortem; 1.0 alpha upgrade)

2015-01-12 Thread Josh Matthews
https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Meeting-2015-01-12 Cheers, Josh ___ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo

[dev-servo] Async networking choices

2015-01-12 Thread Josh Matthews
Servo currently relies on synchronous networking throughout the engine. This design is based around asynchronous Sender and synchronous Receiver objects; each network request occurs in a separate thread, and it sends the response to the consumer in a series of messages. In theory the consumer c

Re: [dev-servo] Async networking choices

2015-01-12 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 1/12/15 2:39 PM, Josh Matthews wrote: the obvious downside is that a tab's event loop will be cluttered with constant attempts to poll for incomplete network responses during page load. Not just during page load. I expect this to peg the event loop on any site that uses long polling (see