I've weakly suggested this in the past (sorry, buried in old list discussions and IRC), but I haven't come up with something that 1. doesn't have nearly the overhead of web workers, and 2. doesn't have nearly the footguns of C's direct thread-based model that's mostly emulated by practically every remotely major software programming language not using CSP or actors/processes. The first is difficult to avoid without avoiding message passing altogether, hence why `SharedArrayBuffer` appeared in the first place. The second is difficult to avoid if you want to minimize message passing overhead, especially without immutable objects (which can usually be sent without copy between threads of the same parent process).
Given Erlang's parallel programming model has proven itself to stand the test of time (it's hardly changed since the 80s) and that others (such as Ruby and some Java circles) are planning to adapt it, I feel it might be worth waiting for this stage-0 proposal to make it in in some form or another first, *then* pushing for language-level support of parallelism: https://github.com/rricard/proposal-const-value-types/ ----- Isiah Meadows cont...@isiahmeadows.com www.isiahmeadows.com ----- Isiah Meadows cont...@isiahmeadows.com www.isiahmeadows.com On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:51 AM Robert Parham <adelp...@protonmail.ch> wrote: > > > Are there any threading proposals? If not, would anyone be interested in > creating one? > > Webworkers are great, but require separate files that just aren't always > convenient to maintain. I've > created this wrapper for webworkers that allows users to create in-line > disposable threads, somewhat > similar to threads in Java. > > https://gist.github.com/Pamblam/683d5ae429448adfa6d6e7fb30de39b2 > > If we could get something similar implemented natively that would be very > cool. > > Robert "Gordie" Parham > pamblam.com > 813.616.0819 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
