Web Workers: A Draft Recommendation to Allow Parallelism in Scripts

Most modern Web pages run scripts. So far, there are many limitations to allow these scripts to take advantage of multicore microprocessors. However, Web Workers is a draft specification that defines an API to allow Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel.


August 26, 2009
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/web-workers-a-draft-recommendation-to-al/228800468

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