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http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/thre...
'''So my default answer to questions such as the one I got at last May's Ajax Experience, "When will you add threads to JavaScript?" is: "over your dead body!"'''
"I think message passing shared nothing beats shared memory preemptively scheduled threads."
So Web Workers are an implementation of his preferred solution.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/thre...
'''So my default answer to questions such as the one I got at last May's Ajax Experience, "When will you add threads to JavaScript?" is: "over your dead body!"'''