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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by duaneb on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:31AM (#5453937)
Again... Good luck with parallel code.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by coldtea on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:12AM (#5454030)
>Again... Good luck with parallel code.

Err, people have moved on from straight parallel code. It's all about message passing and isolation now, which is something Javascript can get perfectly easily (and sort of already has).

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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by duaneb on Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:41PM (#5455910)
First, it's the browser that has web workers, not javascript. Second, message passing is prohibitively slow for things like, say, video games. Third, it's not clear at all that we gain any benefit from javascript use.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by rayiner on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:02AM (#5454768)
Lol no.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by willvarfar on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:53AM (#5453989)
yeah web workers have been driving me nuts recently. The debugging - or lack of it - is crazy.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by erichocean on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:00PM (#5456509)
You can debug web workers in Chrome's normal debugger. It has a separate debugger instance for each worker.
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