Introduction to the HTML5 Web Workers: the JavaScript multithreading approach | Dev Breakthroughs | Scoop.it
An HTML5 application is obviously written using JavaScript. But compared to other kind of development environments (like native one), JavaScript historically suffers from an important limitation: all its execution process remains inside a unique thread. This could be pretty annoying with today multi-cores processors like the i5/i7 containing up to 8 logical CPUs and even with the latest ARM mobile processors being dual or even quad-cores. Hopefully, we’re going to see that HTML5 offers to the web a way to better handle these new marvelous processors to help you embrace a new generation of web applications.