Re: ChromeWorkers and staying off the Main thread

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Huey
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:31 AM, wrote: > On Thursday, 14 March 2013 14:19:57 UTC, Kyle Huey wrote: > > > > > > > > Message passing from a worker to a sub-worker (or vice versa) only > involves > > > > the worker thread and the sub-worker thread. > > > > > > > > - Kyle > > Excellent thanks Kyle,

Re: ChromeWorkers and staying off the Main thread

2013-03-14 Thread neil
On Thursday, 14 March 2013 14:19:57 UTC, Kyle Huey wrote: > > > > Message passing from a worker to a sub-worker (or vice versa) only involves > > the worker thread and the sub-worker thread. > > > > - Kyle Excellent thanks Kyle, that's what I was hoping. Before I go ahead and re-invent t

Re: ChromeWorkers and staying off the Main thread

2013-03-14 Thread Kyle Huey
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, wrote: > Hi all, > > To what extent is the Main thread consumed by a (Chrome)Workers > postMessage() and onmessage() calls to other Sub(Chrome)Workers? > > Specifically, if a sub-worker postMessage()s to it's listening parent > Worker, and the parent Worker posts

ChromeWorkers and staying off the Main thread

2013-03-14 Thread neil
Hi all, To what extent is the Main thread consumed by a (Chrome)Workers postMessage() and onmessage() calls to other Sub(Chrome)Workers? Specifically, if a sub-worker postMessage()s to it's listening parent Worker, and the parent Worker posts back to the sub does this hit the main thread signi