[Bug 23369] Provide hooks for Typed Arrays (ArrayBuffer and friends)

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23369

--- Comment #32 from Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com> ---
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky from comment #31)
> Marking an ArrayBuffer immutable because one view on it is passed to an API
> is a bit weird: it makes all the other views read-only as well, which is a
> pretty nonlocal effect....

No, different from neutering in that regard.  And certainly the most common
situation is a single view over the entire buffer.

The advantage, is that  it places the burden of copying on specific callers
that are dealing with shared buffers rather than having the callee unilaterally
copying everything.

It also chains nicely, avoiding multiple layers of redundant copying


> 
> Past that, I don't know of any reasons it couldn't be done offhand, though
> the JIT folks may have concerns.

should be any worse than neutering, and the same write guard could probably be
used for both.

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Received on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 17:14:44 UTC