[whatwg] RFC: Alternatives to storage mutex for cookies and localStorage

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

> Yet another possibility is to keep a per-domain mutex, also offer a
> transactional API, and accept that careless authors may indefinitely lock up
> the UI for all pages in their domain (up to the slow script execution limit)
> if they code poorly, but in exchange won't have unexpected race conditions
> with themselves.
>

I prefer this. If the app has a bug that causes one window to get stuck,
most likely that's the window the user cares about anyway, so the other
windows (temporarily) getting stuck is not a big deal. Also, if one window
is hogging the database then an asynchronously dispatched transaction is
going to be delayed indefinitely*, so some or all user operations in other
windows will not be able to complete, even if the other windows appear to be
responsive to events.

* Unless we adopt a model where scripts are required to detect aborts and
restart.

Rob
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