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Asynchronous Blob Construction

Category
File APIs
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 51)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Large blobs previously blocked the renderer while transferring data to the browser. This is now asynchronous, which speeds up blob construction. This is the first part of the plan to allow blob data to be saved on disk, which removes the 500MB limit on blob storage.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://bit.ly/BlobStorageRefactor https://bit.ly/BlobStorageRefactorPreso

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