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Wait, what are Web-workers then?

• cwmma 14y ago
  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.
  • rictic 14y ago
    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).
    • duaneb 14y ago
      Apparently ParallelArray allows shared memory.
      • cwmma 14y ago
        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.