Subj : Re: [Q]  Are roots associated with globals, contexts, runtimes or
To   : t o b e
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Aug 26 2004 10:54 am

t o b e wrote:

> Less succintly:
> 
> I use 1 runtime and a pool of contexts. Each thread wanting to run
> javascript acquires a arbitrary JS context and sets its global object to
> whatever the call context is. When the script is finished the global is set
> back to null. Rinse, repeat.
> 
> Does this sound like a bad idea ?


This works fine.


> I root and unroot objects under a null global.


You can even root and unroot passing the JSRuntime *rt, not any 
JSContext *cx, so it doesn't matter if you use the cx-parameterized APIs 
for rooting and cx->globalObject is null.


> Does this sound like a bad idea now ?


No, and it never sounded bad to me ;-).

/be

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