Multithreaded Javascript on its way: Web Workers(developer.mozilla.org)

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Multithreaded Javascript on its way: Web Workers

https://developer.mozilla.org/web-tech/2008/12/04/web-workers-part-2/

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i wonder how locking and synchronization would work then. will there be any keywords for allowign this. my (loose) understanding was that with the old (current rather) js there is a single thread that does everything so locking is not required.

the spec does say message-passing is the coordination mechanism, but that does not automatically imply mutexes and conditional waits...