Re: [whatwg/streams] Could a byte stream read directly into and out of a SAB (w/o transfer)? (#757) from Domenic Denicola on 2017-07-26 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from July 2017)

From: Domenic Denicola <notifications@github.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:10:45 +0000 (UTC)
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I think we should change this sooner rather than later. In Blink we're behind on implementing byte streams, but others have done so, and should be able to get these benefits---especially if we have interested consumers in the wasm space. Plus, I believe right now the spec is incoherent, as it tries to transfer SharedArrayBuffers, which causes a spec-level assert failure.

I do think it's sad that this exposes data races, but I also agree that SharedArrayBuffers in general broke that seal, and we should integrate with them rather than wishing they didn't do that.

I'll try to work on this when I get done with TC39 and some other work items...

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