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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Rust-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
