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What's the point?What's the point?Posted Mar 6, 2012 22:06 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627)In reply to: What's the point? by khim Parent article: Mozilla announces HTML5-based phone
> It still does not support threading (in the era of multicore CPUs!)
Apart from the internal multithreading of Web browser implementations, there's also Web Workers.
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What's the point? Posted Mar 7, 2012 9:00 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Yes, internal multithreading of Web browser implementations and Web Workers finally added to the web functionality most other environments offered 15-20 years ago: the ability to run multiple programs truly in parallel. Yahoo! Huge achievement (even if years too late). This is not comparable to threads, though: you can not process the same piece of data using 4-8 workers (which makes sense if you are working with a single resource-hungry program).
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