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

> [Original comment](https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17415#31) by Grant Galitz on W3C Bugzilla. Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:24:36 GMT

Yeah, I can tell this talk about an emulator producing audio on the main thread and sending off the audio data to a worker is related to JS GBC using XAudioJS with the MediaStream Processing API in use. :P

I personally have to use the main thread for compatibility reasons with legacy browsers lacking web worker support. Essentially creating a second version of the emulator for webworker capable browsers seems like a big hack. Sending audio off from the main thread to the worker is very easy to do, but the i/o lag is off the charts (almost a half a second in some cases), as seen with experimentation with the mediastream api.

To see what it would look like to sync audio from the main thread to the worker:
main thread: https://github.com/grantgalitz/XAudioJS/blob/master/XAudioServer.js#L142
and
https://github.com/grantgalitz/XAudioJS/blob/master/XAudioServer.js#L406

worker: https://github.com/grantgalitz/XAudioJS/blob/master/XAudioServerMediaStreamWorker.js

The question to be asked: Why not allow the js developer to select either a web worker or main thread usage for outputting audio? Locking audio to one or the other seems to only limit options here.

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