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Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model

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From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Date 2013-12-03 16:32 +0100
Subject Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
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Christoph Michael Becker wrote:

> Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
>> Is it really called concurrency? To be precise, there is no
>> concurrence in JavaScript. It is single-threaded on
>> multi-processing machines.
>> 
>> Not sure about very modern variants though.
> 
> There are web workers[1], which enable some form of multi-threading.
> 
> [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_worker>

They are a part of the HTML5 DOM/Web Applications API, though.

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History of JavaScript concurrency model oyvind.teig@gmail.com - 2013-12-03 01:26 -0800
  Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> - 2013-12-03 16:02 +0100
    Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2013-12-03 16:20 +0100
      Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-03 16:32 +0100
        Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model Øyvind Teig <oyvind.teig@gmail.com> - 2013-12-03 13:32 -0800
  Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-12-03 16:29 +0100
    Re: History of JavaScript concurrency model Øyvind Teig <oyvind.teig@gmail.com> - 2013-12-03 22:46 -0800

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