Re: Audio Workers - please review

On 09/11/2014 03:25 AM, Alex Russell wrote:
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> On 10 Sep 2014 10:03, "Olli Pettay" <olli@pettay.fi <mailto:olli@pettay.fi>> wrote:
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>  > On 09/10/2014 08:00 PM, Alex Russell wrote:
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>  >> I see. It should be removed in favor of fetch().
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>  >
>  > Why?
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>  > (But that is off topic to this wg.)
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> Because synchronous == bad.
That doesn't explain why fetch() should be used.
async XHR works just fine.


(still off topic, sorry about that.)


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>  >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Olli Pettay <olli@pettay.fi <mailto:olli@pettay.fi> <mailto:olli@pettay.fi <mailto:olli@pettay.fi>>> wrote:
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>  >>     On 09/10/2014 07:48 PM, Alex Russell wrote:
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>  >>              e) The topic of whether or not synchronous APIs must be allowed on workers is being debated on public-script-coord, and it seems like
>  >>         there is no
>  >>              consensus on that yet.  But I find the possibility of running synchronous XHR on the audio processing thread unacceptable for example,
>  >>         given its
>  >>              realtime requirements.
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>  >>         You should remove XHR and, if anything, only surface fetch. Actually, it was my recollection taht XHR isn't in the base interface for workers.
>  >>         Is that
>  >>         wrong?: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/__web-apps/current-work/__multipage/workers.html#apis-__available-to-workers
>  >>         <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/workers.html#apis-available-to-workers>
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>  >> http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#__interface-xmlhttprequest <http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-xmlhttprequest>
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>  >>     I can see Exposed=Worker there.
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