- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:57:10 -0800
On Dec 11, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Scott Hess wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 11:22 AM, Aaron Boodman <aa at google.com> wrote: >> Or does >> globalStorage not guarantee that data is written when the setter >> returns? > > A thing I've been thinking about for Gears would be the ability to > spin up an in-memory/async "session" database, with the sense of > "session" being the same as for "session cookie". For this database, > when control returns from an update statement, the data is _not_ > guaranteed to be on disk, and if your browser crashes it is explicitly > guaranteed to be gone. So far, so useless, except if you allowed the > system to attach that database to a persistent database. In such a > system, you could do synchronous operations against the session > database, and bulk async operations to propagate the data to the > persistent database. That sounds like an interesting option to consider. Regards, Maciej
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