I don't know if anyone's assigned to it currently.

Dave

On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Donovan Preston wrote:

> Is this likely to get into firefox any time soon? I would be so, so happy.
> 
> Donovan
> 
> On 7/21/12 3:18 PM, David Herman wrote:
>> Oh, actually, I wonder if the "transfer" semantics of ArrayBuffers wouldn't 
>> give us the ability to emulate the exchange heap more accurately:
>> 
>>     http://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/#9.2
>>     http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/12/Transferable-Objects-Lightning-Fast
>> 
>> Long story short: you can dynamically emulate unique ownership of binary 
>> data and transfer it between workers without copies. The sender's reference 
>> to the data becomes "neutered" so that it's unable to view the data after 
>> the send. Of course, Rust would guarantee it never even tried.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:32 AM, Niko Matsakis wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7/18/12 9:48 PM, David Herman wrote:
>>>> That would result in a very different performance model, since Rust 
>>>> expects to be able to create several metric craptons [1] of concurrent 
>>>> tasks, whereas the number of workers you can create is much smaller. But 
>>>> who knows, it might still be interesting enough to be useful for some 
>>>> kinds of programs; ClojureScript is making progress as a single-threaded 
>>>> dialect of Clojure, after all.
>>> Not to mention that we would have to deep-copy all messages.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Niko
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