Thanks! Am 14.01.2016 um 15:08 schrieb Lars Hansen: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmerm...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I saw the lightning talk you gave in Orlando in this topic. I was >> wondering if you considered implementing Transactional Memory for >> SharedArrayBuffer. > > I have not (or, not in earnest). > > > >> JS seems like the perfect environment for TM. Are >> there reasons for 'only' providing atomic ops? Just asking out of >> curiosity... >> > The use cases that drive this work are access to multicore performance > from JS as well as asm.js as a compilation target for conventional > multithreaded C++; actually the asm.js case is the more important one at > this time. Hence the focus for this first version of the spec has been on > (very) low level mechanisms that can serve those use cases in > straightforward ways. > > Personally I'd like to see us add additional higher-level mechanisms that > are a better fit for straight JS programming. I'm hoping that we can use > the current low level mechanisms to prototype higher level ones, and > eventually standardize some of them. I don't know how well we can > prototype TM like that - but it's early days still. > > --lars > > >> Best regards >> Thomas >> >> >> Am 14.01.2016 um 14:16 schrieb Lars Hansen: >>> Until now the new SharedArrayBuffer constructor and the new Atomics >> global >>> object [1] have been enabled on Nightly only. Starting with Firefox 46, >>> those bindings will still be enabled by default on Nightly but they will >>> also be available on Aurora, DevEd, Beta, and Release by flipping the >> value >>> of javascript.options.shared_memory to true in about:config. >>> >>> --lars >>> >>> [1] http://lars-t-hansen.github.io/ecmascript_sharedmem/shmem.html >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>
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