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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by Ygg2 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:47AM (#5453976)
Wait, what are Web-workers then?
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by cwmma on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:56AM (#5453999)
for opening up a new separate thread, that you can only communicate through message passing. It's not part of the core language but the browser library hence why you can't use them in Node.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by rictic on Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:44PM (#5456413)
They're also more directly comparable to processes than threads, as they do not share memory (though there are a couple of proposals to allow them to).
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by duaneb on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:26PM (#5458924)
Apparently ParallelArray allows shared memory.
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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by cwmma on Friday March 29, 2013 @05:54AM (#5459931)
yeah but that's not approved yet and from what I can tell ParallelArray is higher level then Workers and doesn't really expose that sort of thing.
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