On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:23 AM, K. Gadd <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there any known-good polyfills for the current draft Typed Objects / > Binary Data spec? > I want this, too, and will start working on it soon-ish if nobody else does or already did. > Presently, JSIL has a set of primitives that roughly correspond with a big > chunk of the draft specification. I'm interested in seeing whether they can > work atop ES6 typed objects, which means either adapting it to sit on top > of an existing polyfill, or turning my primitives into a polyfill for the > draft spec. If it's useful I might be able to find time for the latter - > would having a polyfill like that be useful (assuming a good one doesn't > already exist)? > > Having an efficient equivalent to the spec in JS VMs is pretty important > for JSIL to ever be able to deliver emscripten-level performance (a single > emscripten-style fake heap is not an option because .NET relies on garbage > collection). If a polyfill (even a partial one) could help move the process > along for the spec, that'd be great. If what the process actually needs is > some sort of feedback, maybe I could offer that instead. The status of the > spec is unclear to me :) > The strawman at [1] is fairly close to what's going to end up in the spec, content-wise. Additionally, the implementation in SpiderMonkey is pretty complete by now, and there are lots of tests[2]. I don't know what the timing for integrating Typed Objects into the spec proper is, cc'ing Niko for that. cheers, till [1]: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects [2]: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/tests/ecma_6/TypedObject/
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