Re: Sync API for workers

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Andrew Wilson <atwilson@google.com>wrote:
>
>> I am not optimistic that we can do deadlock prevention in the general
>> case with MessagePorts, for the same reason that it's prohibitively
>> difficult to reliably garbage collect MessagePorts when they can be passed
>> between processes.
>>
>
> Would you consider this an implementation-blocking problem?
>

No. To the contrary, I was (poorly) arguing in favor of not making deadlock
prevention a required part of the spec.

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