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gibson042 committed Dec 26, 2024
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contributors: Mark S. Miller, Richard Gibson
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<h1>ECMAScript Data Types and Values</h1>

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<h1>Data Blocks</h1>
<p>A data block that resides in memory that can be referenced from multiple agents concurrently is designated a <dfn variants="Shared Data Blocks">Shared Data Block</dfn>. A Shared Data Block has an identity (for the purposes of equality testing Shared Data Block values) that is <em>address-free</em>: it is tied not to the virtual addresses the block is mapped to in any process, but to the set of locations in memory that the block represents. Two data blocks are equal only if the sets of the locations they contain are equal; otherwise, they are not equal<ins>.</ins> <del>and the intersection of the sets of locations they contain is empty</del> <ins>The intersection of the sets of locations contained by two non-equal data blocks may be non-empty only when both data blocks are immutable and one is a strict subset of the other</ins>. Finally, Shared Data Blocks can be distinguished from Data Blocks.</p>
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<h1>Operations on Objects</h1>

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<dt>description</dt>
<dd>It is used to create an immutable ArrayBuffer (i.e., an ArrayBuffer with a an [[ArrayBufferIsImmutable]] slot) with contents from _fromBlock_.</dd>
<dd>It is used to create an immutable ArrayBuffer (i.e., an ArrayBuffer with a an [[ArrayBufferIsImmutable]] slot) with contents from _fromBlock_. Because neither the identity of a Data Block nor the set of locations in memory represented by it are observable, implementations may implement this operation without allocating new Data Block memory locations when _fromBlock_ is the value of the [[ArrayBufferData]] slot for some other immutable ArrayBuffer (and therefore already immutable) and _count_ = _byteLength_.</dd>
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1. Assert: _constructor_ is %ArrayBuffer%.
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