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Ontropy

Reputation: 149

JavaScript limiting my typed array length

I am trying to make a typed array from a SharedArrayBuffer.

let count = 4500;
let sab = new SharedArrayBuffer(count);
let arr = new Int16Array(sab);

now while running the code I noticed that all the components of the array were not getting processed. when I console logging the lengths of the array I got the following output:

// when arr = new Int8Array(sab);
>> 4500
// when arr = new Int16Array(sab);
>> 2250
//when arr = new Int32Array(sab);
>> 1125

If its not a Int8Array its giving a wrong output. I also tried this with different values of count and found the wrong outputs on all of them. I am also not getting any errors in the console.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 377

Answers (1)

Brandon McConnell
Brandon McConnell

Reputation: 6119

This is exactly how the Int8Array, Int16Array, Int32Array, and Float64Array classes are built to function. You can see in the image on MDN's docs here on Typed Arrays that these arrays what is called an Array Buffer.

Each depth has items of twice the size, 16 bytes vs. 8 bytes and so on, and thereby half the length. The base number is 8. So when you set a count of 4500, Int8Array will reflect that same number, but each depth past that (Int16Array, Int32Array, and Float64Array) will reduce that count by half with each step.

Typed arrays in an ArrayBuffer

You can see this in action, and the Float64Array function here:

let count = 9000;
let sab = new SharedArrayBuffer(count);
let sab_depths = [
  ['Int8Array', new Int8Array(sab)],
  ['Int16Array', new Int16Array(sab)],
  ['Int32Array', new Int32Array(sab)],
  ['Float64Array', new Float64Array(sab)]
];
console.log(`Count: ${count}`)
sab_depths.forEach(([depth, array]) => console.log(`${depth}: ${array.length}`));

Upvotes: 2

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