On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:04:03 +0100, Jorge <jo...@jorgechamorro.com> wrote:
Structured clone currently doesn't support Functions.
Good. And if I understand it correctly (*), it does make a shallow copy,
ignoring the prototype chain, doesn't it ?
That's correct.
(*)http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/common-dom-interfaces.html#internal-structured-cloning-algorithm
Simon, what are your feelings about this proposed mechanism to
pass-by-reference and make-unreachable ?
Do you think it's feasible, too ?
I asked our developer who implemented web workers:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:06:55 +0100, s...@opera.com <s...@opera.com> wrote:
Implementing that scheme for Blob/ImageData today doesn't appear
difficult, but as I'm sure some people have brought up in the recent m-l
traffic on WWers (yet to go through that), there be downsides with that
communication model once you consider multi process. But nothing too
tricky (or with too much overhead.)
--sigbjorn
cheers,
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software