Multithreaded JavaScript - by II Thomas Hunter & Bryan English (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Traditionally, JavaScript has been a single-threaded language. Nearly all online forum posts, books, online documentation, and libraries refer to the language as single threaded. Thanks to recent advancements in the language--such as the Atomics and SharedArrayBuffers objects and Web Workers in the browser--JavaScript is now a multi-threaded language. These features will go down as being the biggest paradigm shift for the world's most popular programming language.</p><p><i>Multithreaded JavaScript</i> explores the various features that JavaScript runtimes have at their disposal for implementing multithreaded programming, providing both practical real-world examples, as well as reference material.</p><ul><li>Learn what multithreaded programming is and how you can benefit from it</li><li>Understand the differences between a web worker, a service worker, and a worker thread</li><li>Know when and when not to use threads in an application</li><li>Orchestrate communication between threads by leveraging the Atomics object</li><li>Build high-performance applications using the knowledge you gain from this book</li><li>Benchmark performance to learn if you'll benefit from multithreading</li></ul><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Thomas Hunter II has contributed to dozens of enterprise Node.js services and has worked for a company dedicated to securing Node.js. He has spoken at several conferences on Node.js and JavaScript, is JSNSD/JSNAD certified, and is an organizer of NodeSchool SF. Thomas has published four books including Distributed Systems with Node.js by O'Reilly.</p><p>Bryan is an open source JavaScript and Rust programmer and enthusiast and has worked on large enterprise systems, instrumentation, and application security. Currently he's a Senior Open Source Software engineer at Datadog. He's used Node.js both professionally and in personal projects since not long after its inception. He is also a Node.js core collaborator and has contributed to Node.js in many ways through several of its various Working Groups.</p>
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