Re: Task Queue Ambiguity

Hi Essam,

Essam K <essam.k@outlook.com>, 2015-05-17 00:54 +0000:
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/BAY181-W778C97A77F0E867A680D5AF0C50@phx.gbl>
> 
> Hi,
> I have two questions that are not clear from the specs
> - As per the specs
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/webappapis.html#event-loops) there is one
> event loop per unit of related similar origin browsing contexts. Are the
> task queues between these browsing contexts shared or every browsing
> context has it's own separate queues? 

I think that in implementations they are not shared. I think in practice
implementations have one event loop per render process—so an event loop
isn’t shared among multiple render processes, and a task queue feeds only
one event loop. (Otherwise it’s hard to imagine how things would work.)

> - Directly reachable browsing context with different origin will have
> different event loop. I am assuming that in that case every browsing
> context will have it's own task queue. Is that correct?

Yeah, I think that’s correct.

I say all this with the caveat that I’m not someone who’s actually
implemented any of it, so you probably want to either hear from somebody
who has implemented it or who has a less fuzzy idea than I do about the
actual implementations do things.

  —Mike

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