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 So one very relevant question:  do we even want to do this, given our move to using multiple processes (see [[Content_Processes]])?
-The API described on this page allows very limited necko access to non-main threads in our current, single process architecture.  The primary target is an off-main thread HTML parser.  But if we're going to switch to a multi-process architecture, with the HTML parser in the subprocess(es), there seems to be little point in doing this work, too.   They both achieve better UI/parser response times, and greater parallelism.
+The API described on this page allows very limited necko access to non-main threads in our current, single process architecture.  The primary target is an off-main thread HTML parser.  But if we're going to switch to a multi-process architecture, with the HTML parser in the subprocess(es), there seems to be little point in doing this work, too.   They both achieve better UI/parser response times, and greater parallelism.  The subprocess implementation will also expose a full necko interface to subprocesses, rather than the limited API here.
 The only reason I can see for doing the API here is because we can implement it sooner.  But since there's just one of me :), it would mean the subprocess implementation would be delayed.
 == API target:  sending OnDataAvailable() to other threads ==