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ECMAScript Cookbook

You're reading from   ECMAScript Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you learn the new ECMAScript (ES6/ES8) features and solve common JavaScript problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788628174
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ross Harrison Ross Harrison
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building with Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. Staying Compatible with Legacy Browsers 3. Working with Promises 4. Working with async/await and Functions 5. Web Workers, Shared Memory, and Atomics 6. Plain Objects 7. Creating Classes 8. Inheritance and Composition 9. Larger Structures with Design Patterns 10. Working with Arrays 11. Working with Maps and Symbols 12. Working with Sets 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Web Workers, Shared Memory, and Atomics

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Performing work on separate threads with Web Workers
  • Sending messages to and from Web Workers
  • Sending data to Web Workers
  • Stopping workers with terminate
  • Creating SharedArrayBuffer
  • Sending SharedArrayBuffer to a Web Worker
  • Reading SharedArray from multiple Web Workers
  • Using Atomics to coordinate use of shared memory
  • Using promises to provide a simple interface for a worker
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