Shannon wrote:
Think about the kind of applications that use parallel "compute nodes" and you'll realise that 98% don't exist outside of academia and laboratories due to synchronisation, network latencies and other issues that implementing Javascript workers won't solve. More importantly though there is a lack of general computing software that requires this model.
On second thoughts I withdraw these claims. I don't have the statistics to know one way or the other why "portable threads" are more prevalent than "share nothing" ones. There may be many reasons but latencies probably isn't one of them. It could just be fashion or convenience.
Shannon
