I don't think it's quite that official, as it appears undocumented. But I have heard that they use it internally and don't plan to change it. So it's on par with all of d8 basically, which is not standardized/documented, but still very useful.
Another option is to try to get node Workers working. I have some wip stuff in the node-pthreads branch, but I ran out of time - would be great if someone else can look at that. Basically, the challenge is that logging etc. is impossible when the main thread blocks, which makes it very hard to debug. But it might be possible to get working. (d8's nonstandard blocking APIs make things easier) - Alon On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:05 AM 'Steven Johnson' via emscripten-discuss < [email protected]> wrote: > This is (potentially) great news; being able to test wasm-threads code via > d8 (rather than a full browser interaction) would make future Halide > support for threading much easier to support. But is this a deliberate, > long-term commitment on the part of V8 to provide enough WebWorker support > to support wasm threading? (We wouldn't entertain using this otherwise.) > > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:02 PM Alon Zakai <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, I didn't know the V8 shell had this! >> >> After asking some people, it sounds like this can indeed be useful for >> us. It isn't intended to be identical to the Web API for Workers, but it is >> not a temporary API, so we can rely on it for testing. >> >> - I think we'd need to work around any API differences like that .data >> thing, by checking if we are in "ENVIRONMENT_IS_SHELL" etc. >> - The synchronous getMessage is a special d8 extension, yeah - if it's >> useful for us then no reason not to use it (but yeah, such things are >> probably not well documented except in the source...). >> >> PR sounds great! >> >> - Alon >> >> >> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 3:48 AM Zoltan Varga <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It looks like recent versions of V8's JS shell support web workers, so >>> it is possible to run emscripten+pthreads in this shell. This is useful for >>> running test suites which >>> use threads as it requires less work than running in the browser. >>> >>> Ran into the following problems: >>> - the message received by onmessage () is not wrapped in a 'data' >>> property. This might be a bug in D8. >>> - the main threads onmessage () seems to be only called when control >>> returns to the main loop which never seems to happen in the JS shell, so >>> the 'loaded' message >>> is never received by the main thread, so startup fails. Worked around >>> it by receiving the message synchronously using worker.getMessage () and >>> passing it to >>> onmessage (). 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