Re: [chromium-html5] LocalStorage inside Worker from Robert O'Callahan on 2011-01-10 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2011)

From: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:42:44 +1300
To: Keean Schupke <keean@fry-it.com>
Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimbUCOP=U580MRmKZUofuDUvaMaHuCrGGHaMM8i@mail.gmail.com>

STM is not a panacea. Read
http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetrospectiveOnTransactionalMemory.aspxif
you haven't already.

In Haskell, where you have powerful control over effects, it may work well,
but Javascript isn't anything like that.

Rob
-- 
"Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for
they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures
every day to see if what Paul said was true." [Acts 17:11]

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