Binary Data - possible topic for joint session

[Daniel Friesen]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Ash Berlin wrote:
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>> On 6 Nov 2009, at 19:24, Brendan Eich wrote:
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>>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Dean Landolt wrote:
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>>>> Just in case some of you weren't aware, the CommonJS group has done 
>>>> quite a bit of work and (bikeshedding) on this topic. Here's a link 
>>>> to the wiki:
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>>>> http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Binary
>>>>
>>>> ...
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> Binary/B is the closest of the three proposals to mine, in that it has 
> both mutable and immutable binary data containers. Here are a few key 
> differences:
> ...
> Regards,
> Maciej
One note, Binary/C also originally had a mutable and an immutable type. 
The mutable type was moved to IO/B/Buffer 
(http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/IO/B/Buffer), when comparing to Binary/B, 
Binary/C together with IO/B/Buffer is more equivalent a comparison.

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