摘要:
HTML5 Web Workers provide a new way of performing processor-intensive tasks. Heavy computing has historically been difficult to achieve using JavaScript on the browser. This was due to two things: JavaScript's poor performance and its single threaded nature. The first of these issues has been given a lot of attention in recent years, with browsers competing intensely on JavaScript speed. In the last two years, engines like Chrome's V8 and Safari's Nitro, have made single-threaded performance pretty good.
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