Re: Fwd: XBL2: First Thoughts and Use Cases

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Olli Pettay <Olli.Pettay@helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On 12/16/2010 11:52 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
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>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>  wrote:
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>>> On 12/15/10 11:29 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
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>>>> That seems like an implementation detail. Metadata can be shared and
>>>> cloned as needed, just like styles in CSS.
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>>> Sort of.  It would need to be cloned as soon as the shadow tree is
>>> mutated,
>>> right?  That seems like very fragile behavior from a web author point of
>>> view, where it's easy to deoptimize without realizing it.
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>> At least we can produce simple advice on how to definitely avoid
>> deoptimizing - stick with the declarative syntax and don't mutate the
>> shadow.
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>> With luck, enough use-cases will be solveable with the declarative
>> syntax that this will be an acceptable restriction.
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> Well, at least with XBL1 modifying the shadow tree is very common.
> And I would assume that to be rather common with XBL2 too.

Yes.

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> -Olli
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>> ~TJ
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