Re: [chromium-html5] LocalStorage inside Worker

On 8 January 2011 10:00, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Keean Schupke <keean@fry-it.com> wrote:
> > If access had to be from inside an "atomic" block (a callback from a
> single
> > storage-thread) then this would fix access from multiple tabs/windows as
> > well as from worker threads.
>
> Your suggestion and Jonas's are very similar.  I think the difference
> is that you're suggesting an API that would permit non-serialized
> access to the objects, by using transactional methods, where Jonas's
> completely serializes access.  Jonas's is much simpler; I don't think
> the complexity of this type of transactional access is needed, or
> appropriate for simple Storage objects.
>
> --
> Glenn Maynard
>

I am suggesting that as the semantics are the same, People can think of this
like serialised access, but implementers can use STMs to make their browser
faster than the competition (if they want). To the user it will look the
same.

Cheers,
Keean.