Re: Web Workers

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Alistair MacDonald <al@signedon.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris R., ROC,
>
> A some questions as I am working on the Spec Differences documentation:
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> ROC, I noticed I could not get access to audio data with the MediaStreams
> API without using a Worker thread (using your recent builds and demos).
> Jussi said he believes this the case too. Could you confirm this? If so -
> is this by-design? I am trying to figure out whether there is a technical
> suggestion of dropping JavaScript Processing of audio data from the
> main-thread all-together, or is this was merely a matter of tackling the
> Worker code as a priority.
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>
> Chris R., Where do we currently stand with Workers and the WebAudio API?
> It looks like there has been a lot of great detail going in at the design
> level, do we have an implementation that can use Workers yet? (Apologies if
> there already is and I've missed it)
>

There is not yet an audio workers implementation in WebKit, but please
follow this thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012JanMar/0225.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2012JanMar/0245.html

I hope this thread creates some more discussion.


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> Thanks,
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> Alistair MacDonald
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