Re: Web Alarm API - idiomatic check from Jonas Sicking on 2013-05-08 (public-script-coord@w3.org from April to June 2013)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 15:42:28 -0700
To: Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com>
Cc: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>, public-script-coord <public-script-coord@w3.org>, Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com>
Message-ID: <CA+c2ei-7ahmcAWJ+izGfVj6D9nbM6AZ9D-NsxQH54AwgL18FuA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock
<allen@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> It isn't clear to me why the AlarmManger methods need to be asynchronous.

Because the alarms need to be persisted across system restarts which
means that they need to be saved to disk. Any disk access from the
main thread always needs to be async.

/ Jonas

Received on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 22:43:26 UTC