for JS Ctypes I meant binary data, as written in the Brendan link I've posted at the beginning, and the part I've played a while ago: http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/09/introduction-to-js-ctypes.html
It looks like that part, the binary data, and structs, will be in ES6 so ... good news, and looking forward to play with it. br On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > JSCTypes is unsafe, it won't be standardized and we restrict access to > Firefox add-ons and "chrome" (privileged UX implementation) code. > > Binary data and value objects cover the "fast typed structs/primitives". > > Unsafe FFI is a different issue and should not be mixed up with structs > and scalar/SIMD-vector types. It's also not "awesome" because unsafe. > > /be > > Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > >> I wonder if there is any interest/plan/scheduled TC39 slot about JS >> Ctypes, mentioned by [Brendan Eich in his famous TXJS talk]( >> https://brendaneich.com/**2011/08/my-txjs-talk-twitter-**remix/<https://brendaneich.com/2011/08/my-txjs-talk-twitter-remix/>) >> but never again discussed in this ml. >> >> Seeing `asm.js` passing through all usual procedures before `JS Ctypes` I >> wonder if the latter one is still "a thing" or it will be abandoned (or it >> has already been abandoned) >> >> Not only other JS engines do not expose these nice and potentially ultra >> fast typed structs/primitives, when I've benchmarked them a while ago >> somebody mentioned these are not even JITed in any *Monkey engine. >> >> Thanks for any news about this once awesome idea. >> >> Best Regards >> ______________________________**_________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/es-discuss<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss> >> >
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