Comments on: Asynchronous Storage API http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Asynchronous Location Bar has Landed : Shawn Wilsher http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162/comment-page-1#comment-3746 Asynchronous Location Bar has Landed : Shawn Wilsher Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:33:15 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=162#comment-3746 [...] In order to not block the main thread while reading from disk we either need to make SQLite use non-blocking read system calls, or call into SQLite off of the main thread. Changing the SQLite code isn’t something we want to do, so that solution was out of the question. Luckily, we had solved a similar problem with writes and fsyncs earlier in the Firefox 3.5 development with the asynchronous Storage API. [...] [...] In order to not block the main thread while reading from disk we either need to make SQLite use non-blocking read system calls, or call into SQLite off of the main thread. Changing the SQLite code isn’t something we want to do, so that solution was out of the question. Luckily, we had solved a similar problem with writes and fsyncs earlier in the Firefox 3.5 development with the asynchronous Storage API. [...]

]]> By: Asynchronous Storage API Take 2 http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162/comment-page-1#comment-3170 Asynchronous Storage API Take 2 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:21:39 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=162#comment-3170 [...] been a bit more than three months since I wrote about the asynchronous storage API landing in mozilla-central. As far as I know, there are still no consumers of it in mozilla-central, but I do think that the [...] [...] been a bit more than three months since I wrote about the asynchronous storage API landing in mozilla-central. As far as I know, there are still no consumers of it in mozilla-central, but I do think that the [...]

]]> By: Shawn Wilsher http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162/comment-page-1#comment-2963 Shawn Wilsher Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:36:55 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=162#comment-2963 @funtomas It's my understanding that ext4 fixes this issue with fsync. @funtomas

It’s my understanding that ext4 fixes this issue with fsync.

]]> By: funtomas http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162/comment-page-1#comment-2960 funtomas Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:47:10 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=162#comment-2960 Is ext4 any better in that regard? Is ext4 any better in that regard?

]]> By: Shawn Wilsher http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162/comment-page-1#comment-2959 Shawn Wilsher Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:36:47 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=162#comment-2959 @Paula Sure will. It is appearing right now in 3.1a1pre nightlies! @Paula

Sure will. It is appearing right now in 3.1a1pre nightlies!

]]> By: Paula Rooney http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/162/comment-page-1#comment-2958 Paula Rooney Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:17:22 +0000 http://shawnwilsher.com/?p=162#comment-2958 will this feature make it into the 3.1 release? will this feature make it into the 3.1 release?

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