- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 10:04:29 +1000
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Chris Marrin <cmarrin at apple.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Is this then similar to posting ImageData with Web Workers? ( http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html#imagedata) . I know that these can already be put into a postMessage and they are effectively arrays. Cheers, Silvia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100909/1ffeb4d7/attachment.htm>
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