Inline On Thu, Oct 27, 2016, 21:42 Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/27/16 6:18 PM, Isiah Meadows wrote: > > 1. Add a new `import.fork(script): Promise<Worker>` method-like > > expression that loads the worker and resolves when done/rejects if it > > couldn't for some reason. > > What does "done" mean in this case? > When the worker has finished loading, so you can send and receive messages > > - `worker.send(message, sharedBuffers?)` - Send a message and return a > > Promise to its result. > > What if the "result" of the message is a sequence of messages back? > This is a common thing to do with web workers: ask it to do something, > and it sends the answer back in chunks. > The result is the value returned from the worker's `onMessage`. This does permit async return values, because it's fairly common (at least in my case) to send a message and expect a response as effectively a return value, and I would like to reify that. > -Boris >
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