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Hmmm. Brendan Eich in 2007: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/threads_suck.html http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/t

by gjm11 18y ago

Hmmm. Brendan Eich in 2007: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/threads_suck.html 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!"'''

mbrubeck 18y ago
From his comments on the same post: "I think message passing shared nothing beats shared memory preemptively scheduled threads." So Web Workers are an implementation of his preferred solution.