Re: [whatwg] ArrayBuffer and ByteArray questions from Oliver Hunt on 2010-09-08 (public-webapps@w3.org from July to September 2010)

From: Oliver Hunt <oliver@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 11:21:43 -0700
To: Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com>
Cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-Id: <263A621D-A1F1-4710-85DF-665ED3835772@apple.com>

On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Chris Marrin wrote:

> Web Sockets is certainly another candidate, but I meant Web Workers. There have been informal discussions on using ArrayBuffers as a way to safely share binary data between threads. I don't believe anything has been formalized here.

You can't share data between workers.  There is no (and there cannot be) any shared state between multiple threads of JS execution.

Received on Wednesday, 8 September 2010 18:22:16 UTC