Hi,
Sorry if this has been covered already, but I'm curious if this list
has considered something like co-routines for a future version of ES.
An example implementation of the concept (I'm not sure of the quality)
is here:
http://www.xucia.com/strands-doc/index.html
Properly implemented, it seems that co-routines might offer a better
way to handle concurrency in the browsers than threads or web-workers
for a number of reasons:
1. Since browser app are essentially event driven, the biggest problem
with long running calculations in JS is that it block the browser
event handling. Co-routines offer an easy way around this as a long
running task can be stopped and restarted later without losing context.
2. Properly designed, co-routines can form the foundation of a
scheduling library along the lines of Grand Central Dispatch which
would ultimately allow a browser engine to pawn off multiple CPU cores.
Most importantly, my experience with co-routines is that it makes
harder event-driven style of programming to act more straightforward.
-Charles
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