[jsc-dev] [webkit-dev] Thread naming policy in WebKit

[Brady Eidson]

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 12:48 AM, Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane.tea at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com <mailto:darin at apple.com>> wrote:
> I understand the appeal of “org.webkit” and structured names but personally I would prefer to read names that look like titles and are made up of words with spaces, like these:
> 
> “WebKit: Image Decoder”, rather than “org.webkit.ImageDecoder”.
> “WebKit: JavaScript DFG Compiler” rather than “org.webkit.jsc.DFGCompiler”.
> 
> Not sure how well that would generalize to all the different names.
> 
> I like the idea of having a smart way of automatically making a shorter name for the platforms that have shorter length limits.
> 
> One interesting idea I've come up with is that,
> 
> 1. specifying "org.webkit.ImageDecoder"
> 2. In Linux, we just use "ImageDecoder" part.
> 3. In macOS port, we automatically convert it to "WebKit: Image Decoder”

Why do we specify “org.webkit.ImageDecoder” if only the “ImageDecoder” part is ever going to be used?
Is that because Windows could use “org.webkit.”?

Again, back to Darin’s point, I don’t see any particular value in ever seeing “org.webkit.”

Additionally, the way this proposal treats “ImageDecoder” as multiple words, presumably separated on case-change, is problematic.

e.g. “IndexedDatabaseServer” would expand to “Indexed Database Server”, different from today.
e.g. “IndexedDBServer”, which is probably what this should be called, would expand to “Indexed D B Server"
e.g. “GCController” would expand to “G C Controller”

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Taking your proposal and running with it, I think we could do this:

1 - Specify the feature name with spaces: “Asynchronous Disassembler”

2 - On Linux, it gets collapsed and truncated to 15: “AsynchronousDis”
2a - It could get truncated with ellipses: “AsynchronousDi…" 

3 - On Windows, it gets “WebKit: “ added and is truncated to 30: “WebKit: Asynchronous Disassemb”
3a - It could get truncated with ellipses: “WebKit: Asynchronous Disassem…”

4 - On macOS/iOS, it gets “WebKit: “ added: “WebKit: Asynchronous Disassembler"

Addendum: If we see value in having somethings flagged as “JSC” instead of “WebKit”, we just augment the input to include that.
The above could be “JSC.Asynchronous Disassembler”, and a WebKit specific feature could be “WebKit. IndexedDB Server”

Thanks,
~Brady
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