Re: Blocking message passing for Workers

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Alan deLespinasse <adelespinasse@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would find it extremely useful to have a function available to a Worker
> that would block and wait for a message from another Worker or from the
> main thread. For example, instead of:
>
> onmessage = function(event) {
>   // Do some work
>   // Save all state for next time
> };
>
> I'd like to have something like this:
>
> while (true) {
>   var data = waitForMessage().data;
>   // Do some work
> }
>
> or:
>
> var subworker = new Worker('subworker.js');
> while (true) {
>   var data = subworker.waitForMessage().data;
>   // Do some work
> }
>

There have probably been other threads since, but here's a starting point:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010OctDec/1075.html

-- 
Glenn Maynard