On 2010-01-27, at 12:17, Brendan Eich wrote: > On Jan 27, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Peter van der Zee wrote: > >> new ArrayMapping(arrBuf, intBits, intStart, intFinish); > > The WebGL use-case cannot tolerate scaling by a variable "intBits" element > width. It wants constant (compile-time) element size.
Really? In these days of the JIT-compiler, when is compile-time? I'd rather see a simple interface like the above, or like Lisp's displaced arrays, and just know that if I pick "normal" byte-sizes and offsets that I'm likely to trigger an optimization that turns my indirect array access into just a few hardware instructions (just a load if I am lucky, otherwise load/shift/mask). _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
