Re:WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
by francasso on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:49PM
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The threading description is highly misleading, the current proposal being implemented is based on WebWorkers, they are not just native OS threads with a small overhead
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Re:WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
by luke_wagner on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:23PM
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That's true for the "threading MVP", but there is also discussion about adding "pure wasm threads" as a follow-up which avoids worker overhead/limitations.