Re: Preparing the vote on the data race issue

On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhgari@gmail.com> wrote:

> ...and as I've suggested before (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013JulSep/0199.html) I would really like us to consider replacing AudioBuffers with (ownership transferred) Float32Arrays for the AudioProcessingEvent (short version: AudioBuffers are mostly off-line generated and static, while the data passed to/from an AudioProcessingEvent is purely dynamic and temporary).
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> If we do that, then we should also require those typed arrays to be neutered when the event handler fully executes which I believe is what Roc proposed.
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> Exactly. I think it's the best solution for the AudioProcessingEvent. Especially with Jer's proposal (which IMO makes it clearer that AudioBuffers belong to the audio engine), it makes even more sense to use typed arrays + neutering for the AudioProcessingEvent (which should be very tightly coupled to the audio engine, IMO).
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> I think this would be a good idea.
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I think we should hold off on this suggestion until we resolve the “ScriptProcessorNode processing in workers” issue <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415>, as it's possible solutions there would make neutering unnecessary.

-Jer