It's implemented with setTimeout.
setTimeout is not a part of ECMA specification.
It's basically a trick, that implemented in browsers, so it's our "threads"
emulation :)
Anton.
On Dec 17, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Yu-Hsuan Lai wrote:
> Thanks for the resources.( though my listening skill is not enough to
> understand the speech...)
>
> Another question:
> If I have two jquery.animation like below:
> $(".div1").animate({width:10},"slow");
> $(".div2").animate({width:1000},"slow");
> div1 and div2 will change their width "synchronously", but doesn't javascript
> have only one thread?
> How do jquery implement it?
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Chris Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There are various advantages (simplicity, comprehensibility, flexibility)
> that single threaded, evented models have over multi-threaded paradigm. The
> biggest argument is that threading is hard and not many people actually know
> how to do it properly.
>
>
> Brendan Eich (creator of JS) spoken on this in November, give it a listen:
> http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101108
>
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> On Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Chris Williams wrote:
>
>>
>> There are various advantages (simplicity, comprehensibility, flexibility)
>> that single threaded, evented models have over multi-threaded paradigm. The
>> biggest argument is that threading is hard and not many people actually know
>> how to do it properly.
>>
>> Brendan Eich (creator of JS) spoken on this in November, give it a listen:
>> http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101108
>>
>> --
>> Chris Williams
>>
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/voodootikigod
>> OurParents: http://ourparents.com
>> JSConf US: http://jsconf.us
>> Minute With: http://minutewith.com
>>
>> On Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Yu-Hsuan Lai wrote:
>>
>>> Javascript is a functional language, it's proper to design thread-safe
>>> program.
>>> And most modern language can support multi-threading programming.
>>> It's just a legacy? Or single thread has some advantages for javascript?
>>>
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