tc39 / tc39/proposal-immutable-arraybuffer
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 38
- Forks
- 7
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Informative
- I plan to bring this proposal up at the Wasm CG meeting next week to get Wasm's take. I think this is orthogonal and does not step on Wasm's toes. There is an interesting future design question for reflecting WasmGC Arrays of scalars as JS TypedArrays. I imagine those reflections will not have detachable buffers, but still warrants some discussion with the CG.
Normative
- DetachArrayBuffer needs to throw for immutable buffers.
#38 - Please have a reviewed PR against HTML for structured clone. I don't think there's much design space here, so I'm personally happy for this to be a stage 3 blocker instead of a stage 2.7 blocker. But should WHATWG give feedback that requires this proposal to change, we'd need to make normative changes during 2.7.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11033 - I'd love to implement this with
mprotect. However, that requires page alignment. We can't reveal the page size to user code, as that's a fingerprinting vector. Fixing a page size seems too unergonomic. Ideas? (Usingmprotectis a nice-to-have for V8, not a requirement.)
Editorial
- Prefer ValidateTypedArray's use argument be renamed accessMode. Ditto for the other Validate AOs.
#33 - Rename [AllocateArrayBuffer]'s maxByteLength parameter to something more descriptive since it can be IMMUTABLE. (I suppose you're minimizing the diff for now?)
#33
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the checklist in issue #30, then read the referenced #38, #33, and WHATWG structured-clone pull request. The issue is done when the remaining normative, editorial, and design questions have explicit decisions or documented follow-up.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100