Re: New name for "AudioWorker"

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:

> Why isn't this thing a worker? What forces workers to be heavyweight?
>

This is outlined here:

https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/532

In short, the only things that this new thing and a worker have in common
is that they run script and are not on the main thread. This new thing is
kind of the opposite of a worker in fact.


> Also, would be good to align with the Houdini folks on this as they're
> proposing similar things in the rendering and compositing space.
>

That's absolutely the goal, I'm trying to find the right venue and people
to CC as we speak.

Thanks,
Paul.