Subj : Re: Performance Advice on Maintaining Many Contexts
To   : Peter Kyme
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Thu Mar 03 2005 08:39 am

Peter Kyme wrote:

> However, I also have the situation where one of the C++ callback
> functions can create a new C++ object and associated JS global object,
> which is then executed once before the callback returns control to the
> original JS code. eg:
> 
> JS_SetGlobalObject(cx, gobj1)
> globalObject1 -> running JS code, which calls 'fork' C++ function
> globalObject1 -> C++ 'fork' function, creates new globalObject2
> JS_SetGlobalObject(cx, gobj2)
> globalObject2 -> runs JS code, completes
> JS_SetGlobalObject(cx, gobj1)
> globalObject1 -> returns control to original JS code
> 
> Is this sort of behaviour acceptable?


Sure, you can stack global objects.

/be

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