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Includes docs on core process components and examples of new top-level actors and the "first" actors that help with process bootstrapping. Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D132314
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Processes, Threads and IPC
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These pages contain the documentation for Gecko's architecture for platform process and thread creation, communication and synchronization. They live mozilla-central in the 'ipc/docs' directory.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 3
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ipdl
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processes
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For inter-process communication involving Javascript, see `JSActors`_. They are a very limited case, used for communication between elements in the DOM, which may exist in separate processes. They only involve the main process and content processes -- no other processes run Javascript.
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.. _JSActors: /dom/ipc/jsactors.html
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