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RE: Why no concurrency support in DOM?

From: Allen, Michael B (RSCH) <Michael_B_Allen@ml.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:31:34 -0400
Message-ID: <B27EB33BAB29D2119ABF0001FA7EF289053BF05F@ewfd04.exchange.ml.com>
To: "'Bob Foster'" <bob.foster@webgain.com>, www-dom@w3.org 
The DOM being really just a linked list like data structure would require wrapping everything with mutexes. The is not portable, messy, and doesn't appeal to very many people. Why would you want to
concurrently access a DOM tree anyway?

[Disclaimer: I'm not associated with any WG. I'm just a bistander]

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bob Foster [SMTP:bob.foster@webgain.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:23 PM
> To:	www-dom@w3.org
> Subject:	Why no concurrency support in DOM?
> 
> I'm curious why the DOM has no explicit support for concurrent access?
> 
> Bob Foster
> WebGain
>
Received on Tuesday, 10 July 2001 17:31:39 GMT

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