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Re:Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative by LoganDark on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:59PM (#40852561)
> the main problem with workers is that any data their working on needs to be copied in or side-loaded into them once they spin up

Isn't this no longer an issue thanks to SharedArrayBuffer?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I believe the ONNX Runtime uses this for multithreading on the web, see https://github.com/nagadomi/nunif/issues/34

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Re:Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative by noduerme on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:00PM (#40853182)
Ooh. Interesting. I wrote my last worker-based app a couple years ago for chunking and crunching some large datasets. I'll have to give this a go one weekend.
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Re:Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative by clementpiki on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @04:15PM (#40860054)
Indeed, Pikimov is using SharedArrayBuffers to decode video frames outside of the main thread
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