- From: Jens Alfke <snej@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:09:09 -0700
On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Jeremy Orlow wrote: > What about yieldStorageMutex? Yield is enough different from unlock > that I don't think it'll leave developers looking for the lock > function. Yield fits pretty well since this is essentially > cooperative multi-tasking. StorageMutex is good because that's what > its actually affecting. +1 ... "yield" is a good established term for this sort of behavior. (At a higher level, though, I'm still uncomfortable with semantics that allow a poorly-written worker thread to indefinitely lock up JS code running in web pages.) ?Jens
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