Chapter 5Multithreading with Workers
At the start of this book, I described events as an alternative to multithreading. More precisely, events replace a specific kind of multithreading, the kind where multiple parts of an application process run simultaneously (either virtually, through interrupts, or physically on multiple CPU cores). This gets to be a problem when code running in different threads has access to the same data. Even a line as simple as
| â | i++; |
can be a source of pernicious Heisenbugs[44] when it allows separate threads to modify the same i at the same time. Thankfully, this kind of multithreading is impossible in JavaScript.
On the other hand, distributing tasks across multiple CPU cores is increasingly essential because ...
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