This thread brings up an interesting question: Once we have modules, should we have a place other than ECMA-262 to define standard host-environment libraries that ship with browsers?
On 21 May 2012 04:54, Jussi Kalliokoski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Jens Nockert <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This seems like a very application specific addition. Wouldn't it make >> more sense to add building blocks for building faster DSP operations >> instead? >> > > True, it is very application specific. And yes, that would be far more > useful, however I think at some point in the foreseeable future there's a > place for a built-in module like this as well. > > The main reason I decided to bring this idea up is that having a module > like this in JS has come up quite a few times in W3C Audio WG discussions. > > >> >> Strawmen that popped into my mind, >> >> 1. Typed arrays ( >> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:typed_arrays, already >> available in browsers) >> 2. Value objects ( >> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:value_objects) for >> fixed-point and complex number operations >> >> -- Jens Nockert >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- Wesley W. Garland Director, Product Development PageMail, Inc. +1 613 542 2787 x 102
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