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1 Processes, Threads and IPC 2 ========================== 3 4 These pages contain the documentation for Gecko's architecture for platform 5 process and thread creation, communication and synchronization. They live 6 in mozilla-central in the 'ipc/docs' directory. 7 8 .. toctree:: 9 :maxdepth: 3 10 11 ipdl 12 processes 13 proc_shutdown 14 utility_process 15 16 For inter-process communication involving Javascript, see `JSActors`_. They 17 are a very limited case, used for communication between elements in the DOM, 18 which may exist in separate processes. They only involve the main process and 19 content processes -- no other processes run Javascript. 20 21 .. _JSActors: /dom/ipc/jsactors.html