- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:32:00 -0600
- To: "Nikunj R. Mehta" <nikunj.mehta@oracle.com>
- Cc: Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Jul 27, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Nikunj R. Mehta wrote: > > And mine did get awkward, very quickly. I found it really hard to > keep myself sane through the development of asynchronous code that > executes transactionally and involves multiple sql statements. > > My argument is that the program logic gets really complex, really > fast if you are doing anything complex using Database. On the other > hand, if your logic and SQL needs are really simple, you might as > well use the DatabaseSync interface and pay the price of marshaling > and unmarshaling, which may not be that much. Aaron showed that it's pretty complex to implement the marshalling in a general way on top of Workers and a synchronous interface. > > Alternatively, perhaps, we should consider doing something in > WebWorkers to deal with the overhead of sharing JavaScript objects > across VMs. That would lead to far greater complexity for both implementations and content authors than the complexity saved by removing the async interface. Regards, Maciej
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