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Maskkkk
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Johnstown, PA
Insane since: Mar 2002

posted posted 07-23-2009 23:33

http://ejohn.org/blog/web-workers/

Sure it's only in two and a nightly build browsers right now, but I bet this will complicates/advance Javascript.



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Tyberius Prime
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 07-24-2009 08:19

yeah, multi threading for the masses, but without any synchronization. can this be useful?

(You can fake semaphores with messages... you just have to follow your own rules)

DavidJCobb
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From: United States
Insane since: Mar 2009

posted posted 07-27-2009 03:53

Or a browser developer could just write an engine that runs JS separately, effectively preventing (almost*) all JS from locking the interface**...



* while(!0)alert("")

** Or anything else. By which I mean image and video rendering, which are really the examples Resig cited that I can understand the benefit for. How would workers speed up the raytracing bit? It's still sequential code -- one block (drawing) waiting for another (calculation worker) -- so the multitasking benefit of workers would likely not apply, unless the calculation worker is used multiple times at once... Hmm...

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(Edited by DavidJCobb on 07-27-2009 03:57)

coach
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posted posted 05-31-2011 11:07
Edit TP: spam removed


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