853040 - [Workers] Transferable strings

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Workers, defect)

Description

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

I believe that we could (easily?) implement transferable strings, just as we have transferable array buffers.

This would be quite useful for e.g. I/O:
- JSON.stringify data;
- send it to worker;
- worker encodes it;
- worker writes it to disk.

Comment 1

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

By the way, if someone is willing to mentor me on this, I'm willing to work on it.

Comment 2

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

See bug 852187 comment 1

Comment 3

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

Transferable strings imply that the source string would get neutered, which would make JS strings mutable, which isn't going to fly. I think you want bug 852187 instead.

Comment 4

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

Good point.

Comment 5

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

Cc-ing baku at the suggestion of smaug. Just in case either has an idea.