Plan for enabling Wasm threads

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#124 opened on Feb 5, 2019 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 5/5
Estimated time: Over a week
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: wasm
Domain: operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reading WebAssembly/design#1261 and tc39/ecma262#1435 to understand the proposed SharedArrayBuffer and high-resolution timer changes. Compare how those plans affect Wasm's possible thread primitive, then document a resolved approach for enabling Wasm threads and the remaining questions.

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From https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1261:

In https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/issues/1435 I detailed an approach the HTML community is planning on taking for reenabling ECMAScript's SharedArrayBuffer. This also affects Wasm if Wasm ever gets its own thread primitive (rather than building on top of workers and postMessage()) or some other high-resolution timer mechanism. Your input is most welcome.

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