- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:12:34 -0800
- To: Joshua Bell <jsbell@google.com>
- Cc: Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>, "Web Applications Working Group WG (public-webapps@w3.org)" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Joshua Bell <jsbell@google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am aware of [1], and really waiting for this to be available.
>>
>> So you are suggesting something like {id:file_id, chunk1:chunk1,
>> chunk2:chunk2, etc}?
>
> No, because you'd still have to fetch, modify, and re-insert the value each
> time. Hopefully implementations store blobs by reference so that doesn't
> involve huge data copies, at least.
That's what the Gecko implementation does. When reading a Blob from
IndexedDB, and then store the same Blob again, that will not copy any
of the Blob data, but simply just create another reference to the
already existing data.
/ Jonas
Received on Tuesday, 3 December 2013 21:13:32 UTC