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HTML5 Web Workers provide background processing capabilities to web applications and typically run on separate threads so that JavaScript applications using HTML5 Web Workers can take advantage of multicore CPUs. Separating long-running tasks into HTML5 Web Workers also avoids the dreaded slowscript warnings, shown in Figure 8-1, that display when JavaScript loops continue for several seconds.
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© 2010 Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, Frank Salim
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Lubbers, P., Albers, B., Salim, F. (2010). Using the HTML5 Web Workers API. In: Pro HTML5 Programming. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2791-5_8
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