Add explainer for resizable buffers for BYOB readers #1360
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I'm proposing we add support for resizable
ArrayBuffers to readable byte streams (as suggested in #1248). More specifically, developers should be able to pass anArrayBufferViewbacked by a resizableArrayBuffertoReadableStreamBYOBReader.read(view), and have the returned view still be backed by that same (resizable) buffer.I expect the actual spec change to be fairly small:
[AllowResizable]to theviewargument to indicate that views can now be backed by both resizable and non-resizable buffers.Expect a draft PR soon, so we can talk about implementation details. 😉
Note that supporting growable
SharedArrayBuffers is a non-goal of this proposal, but I still intend to open a separate proposal to supportSharedArrayBuffers. Then we can finally support reading directly into a (shared) WebAssembly memory. 😁Open questions:
ReadableStreamBYOBRequest.view.buffer?byobRequest.view.byteLength.byobRequest.respond()and.respondWithNewView().autoAllocateChunkSize?