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Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by niggler on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:26AM (#5454611)
"That isn't quite true anymore either, because of Web Workers and ParallelArray."

Quote from yesterday's discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451658

"WebWorkers are not really a multithread model. Game engines could be written to leverage message passing based isolates, but in some cases, but doing it in an optimal form isn't exactly developer friendly, it's one of pains of developing the PS3 SPEs is that they didn't share system memory and you had to DMA stuff around."

Re:"Optimizations should be added to V8" for the asm.js subs... by pcwalton on Thursday March 28, 2013 @12:00PM (#5455603)
ParallelArray allows data to be shared without copies.