WICG
Proposal: NativeIO
Introduction
We would like to collaborate on NativeIO, a performant and generic storage API.
Please see the Explainer for more information.
Feedback
I welcome feedback in this thread, but encourage you to file bugs against the Explainer
Adobe applications work on documents that often contain large amounts of data. This data can be text, raster, video and so on. The data in a document is typically larger than available RAM. File sizes in excess of 1GB are not uncommon. When operating in a desktop environment, applications can read and write to local storage, both for scratch space while editing, and as a cache when operating on cloud documents. When dealing with large files, performance of reading and writing data between RAM and local storage is critical.
When running in a browser, Adobe web apps, or, apps, must also allow editing of documents larger than the available RAM. Apps must be able to cache large documents on a local machine to avoid the time and network traffic to re-download data. And, apps must be able to store working data to disk. A key example of working data is the undo history for raster or video based operations. During a long edit session, the working data can be many multiples of the original file size.
Adobe needs a highly performant way to read and write large amounts of working data to the local file system that is secure, origin-private, and a seamless experience for our users. Storage Foundation provides the best available means to achieve this.
The repo now lives under https://github.com/WICG/storage-foundation-api-explainer
Happy incubation!!
