- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 20:50:49 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Aaron Boodman <aa@google.com>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > On May 13, 2008, at 5:08 AM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: > > > > (I suspect that if we are still relying on a thing called 'blob' > > because we still don't have real file system access with some sense of > > security by the time we want to hand around a Terabyte in a web > > application, that we will have seriously failed somewhere. Although it > > isn't impossible that we end up there). > > I see no reason the Blob proposal couldn't handle uploading a Terabyte > of data. 2^53 > 10^4. Indeed, for data that large you really do want a > filesystem reference that you can hand directly to a network API so it > can be sent without having to load the whole thing into memory via > script. Indeed. I should add that while many users aren't necessarily there yet, there are environments (e.g. within Google) where dealing with multi-terabyte files is a pretty regular occurance. We certainly have a vested interest in making sure that the Web APIs can handle this amount of data -- this is the kind of thing we'd be using now, if we could. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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