Closed Bug 1098109 Opened 10 years ago Closed 9 years ago

add NS_NewRunnableFunction (or similar) so folks stop posting chromium tasks

Categories

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XPCOM
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: froydnj, Unassigned)

Details

bent pointed this out to me on IRC today: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=newrunnablefunction There's no reason the Gecko places in the above query should be using the chromium message loop instead of the XPCOM one. We just don't provide a sufficient number of pieces. It'd be a lot easier to do this with variadic templates, of course, but maybe a small, fixed number of templates will encourage people to not pass a million parameters to their functions.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622728#c21 for my major concern: this should us explicit templates, not inferred.
Bug 1152753 might make this bug unnecessary.
The chromium message loop now handles runnables, not tasks.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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