The values defined by the referenced files are not used by these tests.
This makes their inclusion superfluous, which needlessly increases the
time to execute the tests and may confuse some readers.
Migrating all tests to this API is necessary to prevent tests from hanging indefinitely when a SAB is sent to a worker but the code in the worker attempts to create a non-sharable TypedArray (something that is not Int32Array or BigInt64Array). When that scenario occurs, an exception is thrown and the agent worker can no longer communicate with any other threads that control the SAB. If the main thread happens to be spinning in the $262.agent.waitUntil() while loop, it will never meet its termination condition and the test will hang indefinitely.
Because we've defined $262.agent.broadcast(SAB) in https://github.com/tc39/test262/blob/master/INTERPRETING.md, there are host implementations that assume compatibility, which must be maintained.
Migrating all tests to this API is necessary to prevent tests from hanging indefinitely when a SAB is sent to a worker but the code in the worker attempts to create a non-sharable TypedArray (something that is not Int32Array or BigInt64Array). When that scenario occurs, an exception is thrown and the agent worker can no longer communicate with any other threads that control the SAB. If the main thread happens to be spinning in the $262.agent.waitUntil() while loop, it will never meet its termination condition and the test will hang indefinitely.
Because we've defined $262.agent.broadcast(SAB) in https://github.com/tc39/test262/blob/master/INTERPRETING.md, there are host implementations that assume compatibility, which must be maintained.
Rick Waldron
Mike Pennisi
Leo Balter
André Bargull
Kevin Gibbons