- From: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:02:59 -0700
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Drew Wilson <atwilson at google.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert at ocallahan.org>wrote: >> >> We don't know how much (if any) performance must be sacrificed, because >> no-one's tried to implement parallel cookie access with serializability >> guarantees. So I don't think we can say what the correct tradeoff is. >> > > The spec as proposed states that script that accesses cookies cannot > operate in parallel with network access on those same domains. The > performance impact of something like this is pretty clear, IMO - we don't > need to implement it and measure it to know it exists and in some situations > could be significant. > I agree with everything Drew said, but I think think this one point really needs to be singled out. Cookies go across the wire. Serializable semantics are not possible in todays (latent) world. Period. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090402/50c15c3f/attachment.htm>
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