[whatwg] WebWorkers and images

[Jorge]

On 13/01/2011, at 14:05, Marijn Haverbeke wrote:

>> To preserve shared-nothingness, the passed object (and the object's children) could be made unreachable (somehow, don't ask me) in the sending context as soon as passed to the worker. Perhaps other constraints might need to exist, e.g. perhaps no methods allowed in these objects.
> 
> This is a hairy, deep, programming-language theory problem, and I'd
> say the chances of getting it right on top of JavaScript are slim.
> 
> I think agressive optimization of the copying code is a more hopeful
> direction. After all, we're not dealing with huge chunks of data here.
> In an ideal case, memory-to-memory copy takes less than half a
> millisecond per megabyte.


But if you could make it unreachable on the sending end then there would be no need to duplicate it, just to pass a reference to the worker, it would take about < 1 ns.
-- 
Jorge.