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Multithreaded Javascript on its way: Web Workers (developer.mozilla.org)
2 points by cbetz on Dec 9, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


i wonder how locking and synchronization would work then. will there be any keywords for allowign this. my (loose) understanding was that with the old (current rather) js there is a single thread that does everything so locking is not required.

the spec does say message-passing is the coordination mechanism, but that does not automatically imply mutexes and conditional waits...




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