[Bug 18611] Blob should support Transferable

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18611

Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com> 2012-08-18 06:37:04 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Transferability has been added twice before: Ports and "ArrayBuffer-stuff".
> 
> In the first occasion it was added because Ports doesn't make sense if they
> aren't transferred.
> 
> In the second occasion it was added to enable better performance.
> 
> Neither of those reasons apply here. We would get no additional performance
> benefits from transferring blobs, and we can implement posting Blobs just fine
> without transferring them.


We've got discussion about Blob with autorelease as well as transferring Blobs
across origins (because we can't just sent a simple filesystem URI) and the
consequences among all existing implementations in keeping Blob references in
memory and on many occasions, Blobs in RAM.

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Received on Saturday, 18 August 2012 06:37:06 UTC