Re: endianness

2013-04-02 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
On 4/1/2013 10:24 PM, Kenneth Russell wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Kevin Gadd wrote: One could also argue that people using typed arrays to alias and munge individual values should be using DataView instead. If it performs poorly, that can hopefully be addressed in the JS runtimes (t

Re: endianness (was: Observability of NaN distinctions — is this a concern?)

2013-03-31 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
(Apologies for breaking threading -- subscribed too late to have original message to reply to.) David Herman wrote: On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Andreas Rossberg https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss>> wrote: >/ There actually are (third-party) projects />/ with ports of V8 and/or Chr

Re: Adoption of the Typed Array Specification

2010-05-14 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
- "Kenneth Russell" wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Alex Russell wrote: > On May 13, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: > >> This is difficult to do, given the goals of typed arrays -- they wouldn't >> behave like normal Arrays in m

Re: Adoption of the Typed Array Specification

2010-05-13 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
implemented generically in any language, as well as a separate spec describing ES types that happen to fulfill the requirements of typed arrays. - Vlad - "Mark S. Miller" wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Vladimir Vukicevic < vladi...@mozilla.com > wrote: Th

Re: Adoption of the Typed Array Specification

2010-05-13 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
This is difficult to do, given the goals of typed arrays -- they wouldn't behave like normal Arrays in most meaningful ways. At the core, an ArrayBuffer is of fixed size, and it doesn't make sense to index an ArrayBuffer directly (because there's no indication of what format the data should be a

Re: typed array strawman proposal

2010-01-27 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
On 1/26/2010 11:25 PM, Kris Kowal wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Vladimir Vukicevic wrote: Howdy, At Brendan's request, I've just added a new strawman proposal for ES typed arrays to the wiki. This proposal comes from the WebGL group, which needed a way of efficient

typed array strawman proposal

2010-01-26 Thread Vladimir Vukicevic
Howdy, At Brendan's request, I've just added a new strawman proposal for ES typed arrays to the wiki. This proposal comes from the WebGL group, which needed a way of efficient access to and manipulation of native machine-type arrays; once we came up with a reasonable baseline API, it looked