⚡ Bolt: Zero-copy decoding for SharedArrayBuffer

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⚡ Bolt: Zero-copy decoding for SharedArrayBuffer

💡 What:
Optimized data reading in ShareableMap and ShareableArray by decoding directly from the SharedArrayBuffer view instead of copying data to a temporary intermediate buffer.

🎯 Why:
The previous implementation always copied data from the shared memory to a private buffer before decoding to support environments that couldn't decode directly from SAB. This added overhead (allocation + memcpy) to every read operation. Modern environments support decoding directly from SAB views.

📊 Impact:
Reduces memory allocation and copying overhead for all read operations (get, readItem, iteration). For large datasets or frequent access, this significantly improves performance.

Measurement:
Run benchmarks or read operations. The implementation includes a correctness fix for NumberEncoder which was previously ignoring byteOffset, enabling it to work with sliced views.

Safety:
Added a SUPPORTS_SAB_VIEW check to ensure the optimization is only used in environments that support it, falling back to the safe copy method otherwise.

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[pverscha]

In principal, I do agree with this improvement. However, when I implemented this code back in the days, I do remember that almost no environment dit actually support directly decoding text from a SharedArrayBuffer. Can you give me some evidence on which environments (e.g. browsers and versions) this is supposed to be supported nowadays?

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In principal, I do agree with this improvement. However, when I implemented this code back in the days, I do remember that almost no environment dit actually support directly decoding text from a SharedArrayBuffer. Can you give me some evidence on which environments (e.g. browsers and versions) this is supposed to be supported nowadays?

That is a very valid concern! To address exactly this compatibility issue, I've implemented a feature detection check (SUPPORTS_SAB_VIEW) in TransferableDataStructure.ts.

This check attempts to decode a small SharedArrayBuffer view at runtime. If it succeeds, we use the zero-copy optimization. If it throws (or is unsupported), we automatically fall back to the original behavior (copying to a temporary buffer).

This ensures the optimization is safe to merge: modern environments (like recent Chrome/Node.js/Firefox) that support this will see the performance benefit, while older or stricter environments will continue to work exactly as before with no regression.