[whatwg] BinaryEncoding for Typed Arrays using window.btoa and window.atob
Boris Zbarsky
bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Mon Aug 5 18:26:57 PDT 2013
On 8/5/13 9:15 PM, Chang Shu wrote:
> I think the atob implementation is able to enlarge the buffer size
> from c++ side if necessary.
No, it's not. ArrayBuffer sizes are immutable.
> the algorithm first decodes base64 string into a binary string and
> casts/copies it into the desired type based on the input
> ArrayBufferView.
Does it cast or copy? That is, does it do the moral equivalent of
memcpy, or the moral equivalent of a for loop setting a[i] = b[i]?
-Boris
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