Re: Proposal for fixing race conditions

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:38 PM, David Herman <dherman@mozilla.com> wrote:

> Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> > The status quo in Webkit, as I understand it, allows changes to the array
> > after the setValueCurveAtTime call to affect the AudioParam's behavior on
> > the audio thread, so those changes may or may not be observed depending
> on
> > all sorts of implementation details, including details of the memory
> > subsystem of the underlying hardware. This is unprecedented in existing
> > specs and I will object to it all the way through the W3C process if
> > necessary.
>
> I would like to back Robert up and voice my objections to the racy API. We
> should not be adding low-level data races to JavaScript or the web
> platform, nor should we be exposing architecture-specific memory models.
>

I'm in the same boat, as I've said in previous discussions on this matter
on the list.

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Ehsan
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