On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Kam Kasravi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does this have some parallels with channel messaging ( > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/comms.html#channel-messaging)? > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Kris Zyp <[email protected]> wrote: > > So Web Workers are the competition? You can build far references on Web > Workers, right? > Kind of, yes. Vats, remote references, and eventual message sends can be straightforwardly mapped (in two different ways) onto WebWorkers, message ports, and postMessage respectively. The reason I say "kind of" is that this is intended as an object oriented abstraction layer than can be mapped onto many kinds of substrate, including postMessage, JSON/RESTful HTTPS (ref_send), WebSockets (qcomm), and connection-oriented use of TLS (caja-captp), etc. By contrast, with WebWorkers and message ports themselves, you only get "far" references among vats within the same browser. More later... -- Cheers, --MarkM
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