Re: [web-audio-api] (JSWorkers): ScriptProcessorNode processing in workers (#113)

> [Original comment](https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415#38) by Marcus Geelnard (Opera) on W3C Bugzilla. Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:25:04 GMT

(In reply to [comment #38](#issuecomment-24244528))
> To sum up my argument: We are currently not provided all the resources inside a
> webworker to attain full independence from the main thread yet, and dependence
> on the main thread kills us with i/o lag.

A possible solution for emulators like the JS GBC emulator (which I really like!): move the audio emulation part to a Web worker (making it independent from the main thread), and post time-stamped audio HW register writes from the main thread to the audio Web worker (should be quite compact data?). That way you would be glitch free even in cases of i/o lag. This assumes that you can do the audio HW emulation independently from the rest of the machine, but for simple "8-bit" sound HW, I think it can easily be done.

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