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> Gives JavaScript access to shared memory, atomics, and futex. Holy fuck, this is going to be bad, introducing a whole continent of new bugs into JavaScript l
by dom0 10y ago
> Gives JavaScript access to shared memory, atomics, and futex.
Holy fuck, this is going to be bad, introducing a whole continent of new bugs into JavaScript land. And also giving JS even more and even better options to spy and attack other applications on the same computer.
- Matthias247 10y agoYes, it introduces a whole new range of multithreading issues also to JS land. However I think threading issues won't be as common as in C++/Java/C# land, since the only thing that will be shared between threads/workers is byte arrays -> There's no shared access to other Javascript objects. As most normal JS developers won't be dealing with plain byte arrays the potential for misuse is not too high.