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