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- Jul 15 2010
Javascript Typed Arrays: Method Support
Al MacDonald recently posted http://stage1.bocoup.com/blog/javascript-typed-arrays – which is an interesting look at the benchmarkable speed differences between FireFox 4’s Float32Array constructor and the traditional Array constructor. As expected, the Typed Arrays are definitively faster due entirely to native optimization: they only allow integer or floating point numbers (respectively to their Int or Float prefix); additionally […]
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- Jun 21 2010
Javascript Web Workers: Chrome 5+ supports new SharedWorker()
In my excitement and haste upon discovering new SharedWorker() support in the Opera 10.60 Beta, I neglected to snoop around the window object of my two favorites, Chrome 5+ and FireFox 3.6+ … WHOOPS! If I had done so, I would’ve discovered, as I did just now, that Chrome 5+ ALSO supports new SharedWorker(). Of […]
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- Jun 18 2010
Javascript Web Workers: Opera 10.6 Beta Supports SharedWorkers
While poking around the Web Worker API in the latest Opera Beta Release, I discovered that they had also implemented support for Shared Web Workers. If you’re not familiar with Shared Web Workers, have a look here. The basic premise is that a Shared Worker can have multiple connections made to one Worker. Paraphrased from […]
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- Jun 17 2010
Processing Pixel Data with Web Workers…
One of the questions that came up in the Processing track was: “Can you pass the image data from a Canvas to a Web-Worker for processing?” My assumption was “yes” as the specs declare you can paste any complex object to and from workers so long as you’re not trying to pass a DOM element. […]
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- Jul 26 2009
Expanding Capabilities of Javascript Web Workers
Yesterday, I was introduced to Javascript Web Workers during a bad-ass FireBug console hack-session with Al MacDonald (http://hyper-metrix.com). I have to say… this is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a very long time… Workers are currently available in FireFox 3.5, Safari 4 and (according to John Resig) the Chromium Nightlies. I’d like to consider […]
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