Re: [streams] rsReader.readBatch(numberOfChunks)? rbsReader.read(view, { waitUntilDone: true })? (#320)

> Indeed, they are, as are most (all?) primitives that appear in the ES language spec in SpiderMonkey. Promises are a strange exception in SpiderMonkey...

I am told this is because SpiderMonkey does not have the concept of an event loop.  All previous timer and async callback APIs were in the DOM.  So Promises are a unique case.  Long term plan is to add an event loop to SpiderMonkey.

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