Emscripten gains experimental pthreads support

Re:Emscripten gains experimental pthreads support by haberman on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @09:46PM (#10051888)

Looks like this announcement is from two months ago. Anyone have experience using this?

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Re:Emscripten gains experimental pthreads support by gunyarakun on Thursday August 13, 2015 @12:38AM (#10052282)

I found some bugs and commented on the original pull request for the pthread support. https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/pull/3266.

In my opinion, the pthread support itself works well now. But the biggest problem of the implementation is that SharedArrayBuffer, the pthread support calls for, is implemented only in Firefox currently.

One of the purpose to use emscripten is made an application cross-platform web application. You can get a "non-webbish" code runs only in Firefox with pthread-supported emscripten as of now.

I'm looking forward to other browsers with SharedArrayBuffer support, especially Mobile Safari.

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Re:Emscripten gains experimental pthreads support by marcosscriven on Thursday August 13, 2015 @04:45AM (#10052862)

Looks like it's coming to Chrome: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

But agree iOS Safari would be a great addition for this.

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Re:Emscripten gains experimental pthreads support by bobajeff on Thursday August 13, 2015 @10:20AM (#10054385)

I'm pretty sure it's also behind a flag and will remain so until the spec is stable enough that it won't change when it becomes standard (likely EcmaScript 2017).

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