Web platform integration

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
testing-qa, web-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing the linked WebIDL SetValueInBuffer and get-buffer-source-copy definitions, then identify the consuming web specifications that use them. Write the requested WPT tests and update those specifications to address immutable buffers and the avoidable defensive copy; use the linked Matrix discussion for context.

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Description

There are various web specs which use SetValueInBuffer directly (via WebIDL). These need to be updated and WPT tests written.

Also, there are specs which do a defensive copy of the bytes in a view which can be avoided when the buffer is immutable. This technically is an as-if optimization, but it's probably worth updating the WebIDL and consuming specs to call this out anyway because otherwise people will not know to make this optimization.

See discussion in Matrix.

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