- From: Chris Marrin <cmarrin@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:37:49 -0700
- To: Oliver Hunt <oliver@apple.com>
- Cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, Web Applications Working Group WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > > 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. Right. I didn't mean literal sharing. But you can imagine some copy-on-write semantics which would make it more efficient to pass data this way. ----- ~Chris cmarrin@apple.com
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