Subj : Re: Comment on API: contexts vs runtimes
To   : Brendan Eich
From : Alain Frisch
Date : Tue May 24 2005 05:25 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:
> The API is almost ten years old, and it generally can't be changed 
> incompatibly.  Adding JSRuntime* parameterized APIs corresponding to 
> JSContext* parameterized ones is possible, but not always necessary. 
> There's no point adding code bloat just for symmetry.

Agreed. A note in the API documentation to explain how the context is 
used and whether it is ok to use another context from the same runtime 
would be useful, though.

> Which APIs do you have in mind, in particular?  The rooting ones 
> actually do add value when passed a JSContext*, by reporting out of 
> memory errors using cx->errorReporter.

The particular function was RemoveRoot. I didn't find the RemoveRootRT 
variant in the doc, and had to check the implementation to know whether 
it was ok to use it in my situation.

-- Alain

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