568695 - Jetpack-process primitives for the timer module

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

With a primitive or two exposed, the timer module can/should be in the jetpack process only.

Comment 1

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Note that in order to land e10s support in the Jetpack SDK for bug 567703--specifically, to run async tests in the Jetpack SDK--we needed timer support, so for the time being we've got a gimpy timer "placeholder" in addon processes that implements setTimeout() and clearTimeout() by message-passing with the chrome process. Once this bug is fixed, though, we can remove the gimpy version and use the native implementation.