typelevel / typelevel/cats-effect
Implement platform-specialized `Queue`s for ScalaJS
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- Scala
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Description
This is probably super-easy because you just don't have to worry about concurrency at all. Given an Async[F], you can do a stupid-simple UnsafeBounded and UnsafeUnbounded from #2885 that should run faster on JavaScript than the JVM versions (which have to guard a lot of complex multi-threaded cases).
The main problem is that we probably shouldn't do this until we have benchmarking infrastructure for ScalaJS. This is unquestionably worth doing in and of itself.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the UnsafeBounded and UnsafeUnbounded work referenced in #2885 and the repository's ScalaJS support. Establish benchmarking infrastructure for ScalaJS first, then verify that platform-specialized queues can be compared against the JVM versions and that the benchmarks show the intended improvement.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100