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Parse binary structs... with a language that only has doubles.

FrancisStokes 8y ago
I'm guessing you haven't seen the new data types? - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int8Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8ClampedArray https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int16Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint16Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int32Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint32Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Float32Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Float64Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
gridlockd 8y ago
Nowadays Javascript supports packed binary data natively. The only things that Javascript lacks is a 64-bit integer type. All other numeric types can safely be represented in a double. JITs can also use integer types internally when possible (small integer optimization).

I'm guessing you haven't seen the new data types? - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int8Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8ClampedArray https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int16Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint16Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Int32Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint32Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Float32Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Float64Array https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

gridlockd 8y ago

Nowadays Javascript supports packed binary data natively. The only things that Javascript lacks is a 64-bit integer type. All other numeric types can safely be represented in a double. JITs can also use integer types internally when possible (small integer optimization).