477642 - Experiment with Web Workers / Worker Pool

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Skywriter Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Dion Almaer]

Where there are UI bottlenecks, experiment with Web Workers to offload the work.

One example: syntax highlighting. Do that work in a Worker.

Would be cool to implement the W3C Web Worker API in a way that "just works" when the impl is there, when Gears is there, and when nothing is available (setTimeout())

Comment 1

[Malte]

Attachment: Experimental patch for web workers and syntax highlighting

Patch might not apply cleanly but should work for discussion

Comment 2

[Malte]

Attachment: Same patch with new files

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is a mass migration from Mozilla Labs :: Bespin to Bespin :: General.

This bug likely still needs to be triaged and categorized.

Comment 4

[Kevin Dangoor]

ACETRANSITION

The Skywriter project has merged with Ajax.org's Ace project (the full server part of which is their Cloud9 IDE project). Background on the change is here:

http://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/2011/01/18/mozilla-skywriter-has-been-merged-into-ace/

The bugs in the Skywriter product are not necessarily relevant for Ace and quite a bit of code has changed. For that reason, I'm closing all of these bugs. Problems that you have with Ace should be filed in the Ace issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/issues