[whatwg] WebWorkers and images

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Sun Jan 16 18:31:14 PST 2011


> Sorry, I've lost track of this part of the discussion.  Is functions
> cloning needed for non-copying messages, or is this tangental?

It depends on what you want to be able to pass across such non-copying 
messages, basically.  For simple things, it's not needed.

> My impression for zero-copy messaging was to define it as closely to
> regular messaging as possible: visible behavior almost identical to
> structured clone, except for the side-effect of disabling the object
> after the postMessage call completes and some special handling if
> multiple objects receive the message.

Then you don't need to do anything funky with functions.

-Boris



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