[whatwg] HTML Cookie API

[Diogo Resende]

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:21 -0800, Darin Fisher wrote:
> For reference, reading document.cookie has measurable performance cost
> in Chromium since the cookie jar lives in a process separate from the
> process running JavaScript.  We could have minimized this cost by
> caching the cookies locally, but then there are cache coherency
> issues.
> 
> 
> I think the cookie APIs should have been asynchronous from the start.
>  Whenever an API is backed by I/O, asynchronous should be the rule.  
> 
> 
> -Darin

What about something like:

document.pushCookies(function () {
	// cookies have been pushed to the js process
	var x = document.getCookie("x");
	// whatever...
});