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…group are recently considering relaxing the limitation that the main thread can't use atomic.wait: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/177#issuecomme...

comment by AgentME · 2026-05-27 · in Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM

There is a proposal to add threading to WASM itself https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/t... But that’s not going to help when accessing the DOM.

comment by mr_toad · 2024-07-10 · in Show HN: Parallel DOM – Upgrade your DOM to be multithreaded

Similarly for threads: https://github.com/webassembly/threads

comment by Extigy · 2024-03-12 · in No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing

Specifically I submitted this to draw attention to the latest comment in the thread: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/177 It's a good deep dive into how a small, but well-intentioned, browser choice nearly a decade ago led to…

comment by kettlecorn · 2024-03-06 · in WebAssembly: Adding atomics waits to the main thread is the right thing to do

…the time the answer in the WASI world. For this case it's complicated because some runtime supports https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads which mostly contains things like the spec for atomic but not the actual "threads" specs and then…

comment by pryz · 2023-09-14 · in WASI Support in Go

Useful info is here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/t... Atomics are well covered. The "wait" and "notify" primitives map efficiently to mutexes. "Blocking on the main thread is not allowed, so we can't call…

comment by Animats · 2023-03-21 · in A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us

There is a WebAssembly proposal called "Threads". https://github.com/webassembly/threads "This proposal adds a new shared linear memory type and some new operations for atomic memory access. The responsibility of creating and joining…

comment by richdougherty · 2023-03-21 · in A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us

…WASM supports the exact same multi-threaded/shared-memory/atomic-operations model as the JVM: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads

comment by brabel · 2022-09-21 · in Wasmtime 1.0

> Were these facilities added to a wasp runtime, https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/main/proposals/t...

comment by 15155 · 2022-08-17 · in Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser

WebAssembly is having/going to have threads https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads

comment by miohtama · 2022-02-16 · in LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly

…assembly instructions for atomics, rather than the JavaScript API. I.e. the opcodes listed here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals...

comment by paulgb · 2021-07-21 · in Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust

…assembler, it's (going to be) very high level: - https://github.com/WebAssembly/reference-types - https://github.com/webassembly/threads - https://github.com/WebAssembly/exception-handling - https://github.com/WebAssembly/function-reference…

comment by emteycz · 2021-05-21 · in WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser

…have - both threads & shared memory are available already in Chrome & Firefox's stable releases ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals... & https://webassembly.org/roadmap/ ). Which means it also has accurate…

comment by kllrnohj · 2021-05-01 · in Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly [pdf]

…memory; and those choices aren't by coincidence, they're by design to keep things safe (see e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/8 ). If indeed webassembly adds features that add attack surface, I sure hope (and fully expect)…

comment by emn13 · 2021-05-01 · in Everything Old Is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly [pdf]

…target, as they're probably hard to use correctly manually. That being said, WebAssembly threads ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads ) may be more appropriate for this. For completeness, Workers can also transfer memory (…

comment by twiss · 2021-03-18 · in Clio: A functional, distributed programming language that compiles to JavaScript

…on the potential of WASM for universal deployment, but the slow pace is a bit concerning. [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads

comment by the_duke · 2021-01-05 · in Wasmer 1.0

…in wasm, there are a ton of inflight proposals and extensions to get it beyond the mvp stage. [0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads [1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/multi-memory

comment by cdcarter · 2020-01-19 · in Standalone WebAssembly games using I/O devices

Some discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/9 tl;dr if WASM shared memory is specified to follow the same rules as SharedArrayBuffer, then atomic operations are sequentially consistent. Normal memory accesses in the…

comment by teraflop · 2018-10-30 · in WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70

…issues" in the blog post links to https://TBD . 0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals 1 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads

comment by kodablah · 2018-10-30 · in WebAssembly Threads ready to try in Chrome 70

…isn't further along yet (I really need some test cases in the suite to make me feel better). 0 - https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/issues/106

comment by kodablah · 2018-10-23 · in Multithreading Rust and Wasm

…here. Like the existing memory instructions, the atomic instructions proposed for threads ( https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals... ) don't take a linear memory parameter. That means they operate on the same default…

comment by panic · 2018-10-09 · in Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast

WASM will have more low level support. https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals...

comment by pjmlp · 2018-06-23 · in Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future

…fater than JavaScript. Not to forget wasm is in very early stage, once we get threading support( https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads ) we can get much better results.

comment by akmittal · 2017-12-18 · in WebAssembly Raytracer

Correct, shared memory and atomics are likely the first big post-MVP feature: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads/blob/master/proposals...

comment by jfbastien · 2017-06-07 · in Assembling WebAssembly

…(I am not sure how far along non-WebWorker-based wasm threads are, but here's the proposal: https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads )

comment by Rusky · 2017-05-15 · in An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly