[whatwg] Endianness of typed arrays

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:21 PM, John Tamplin <jat at google.com> wrote:

> a = someFunctionReturningUint16ArrayWhichMightBeLEorBE();
> a[4] = 100;
>
> the call to store into a might need to call Uint16LEArray or
> Uint16BEArray.storeInto under the hood.  If you only ever use one, then the
> JIT'er can just assume that one and inline it.


Can you give a more concrete example? I can't think of a situation where
we'd have a function that toggles between returning little-endian and
returning big-endian buffers.

Rob
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