er, by "it looks larger than it appears" I meant "it's smaller than it appears" or "it looks much larger than it is" or some such :).
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 5:21 PM, Dean Tribble <trib...@e-dean.com> wrote: > A first round of spec-text is now pushed for the new APIs at > https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs/blob/master/specs/spec.md. > > A note on the API change in the last presentation: it looks larger than it > appears. > > 1) Some of WeakRef was pushed in to a new parent, "WeakCell", so that it > could better support long terms in wasm, and because there's now two types, > 2) WeakRefGroup was renamed to WeakFactory. > > WeakRef is unchanged (and creation still preserves the Target until the > end of turn). The new "WeakCell" is for finalization only, so it doesn't > have a deref() *and* creation does not strongly preserve the Target until > the end of the turn. > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 1:09 AM, Dean Tribble <trib...@e-dean.com> wrote: > >> We got another round of insurmountably good feedback, so I revised the >> presentation again and am back to writing spec text. >> >> I will get the revised spectext out before finishing the revision of the >> accompanying proposal doc, which is primarily background and explanation. >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:35 PM, Dean Tribble <trib...@e-dean.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This is just a heads up that the WeakRefs *presentation* has been >>> updated with the improved API and semantics, based on various issues and >>> discussions from the first version of the proposal. The new version is >>> updated in place and is still at: >>> >>> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs/blob/master/specs/ >>> Weak%20References%20for%20EcmaScript.pdf >>> >>> The update for the proposal document itself is still in progress. I will >>> reply here when it is updated (this week). >>> >>> Thank you to all the people who posted issues and examples and >>> participated in those discussions. >>> >> >> >
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