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Workers can be made to work in a browser, but communication can be awkward and slow.
by ProfHewitt 7y ago
Workers can be made to work in a browser, but communication can be awkward and slow.
- monoideism 7y ago> Workers can be made to work in a browser, but communication can be awkward and slow. True, but with the SharedMemory browser API, things are looking up (but not yet implemented in all major browsers).
- bitwalker 7y agoApologies, Professor, I missed your reply! SharedArrayBuffer makes communication between schedulers essentially equivalent to non-browser environments, but support for it is still iffy at best due to Spectre. Luckily, that is a temporary problem, not a fundamental issue (SharedArrayBuffer being disabled that is, not Spectre). In a single-threaded setting, there isn't any significant overhead that I'm aware of between a browser and non-browser environment, aside from any overhead potentially incurred by executing on the WebAssembly VM rather than directly on the host machine. Of course, running single-threaded is less than ideal for other reasons.