Multithreaded Javascript

Table of contents

1. Foreword
2. Preface
   1. Target Audience
   2. Goals
   3. Conventions Used in This Book
   4. Using Code Examples
   5. O’Reilly Online Learning
   6. How to Contact Us
   7. Acknowledgments
3. 1. Introduction
   1. What Are Threads?
   2. Concurrency Versus Parallelism
   3. Single-Threaded JavaScript
   4. Hidden Threads
   5. Threads in C: Get Rich with Happycoin
      1. With Only the Main Thread
      2. With Four Worker Threads
4. 2. Browsers
   1. Dedicated Workers
      1. Dedicated Worker Hello World
      2. Advanced Dedicated Worker Usage
   2. Shared Workers
      1. Shared Worker Hello World
      2. Advanced Shared Worker Usage
   3. Service Workers
      1. Service Worker Hello World
      2. Advanced Service Worker Concepts
   4. Message Passing Abstractions
      1. The RPC Pattern
      2. The Command Dispatcher Pattern
      3. Putting It All Together
5. 3. Node.js
   1. Before We Had Threads
   2. The worker_threads Module
      1. workerData
      2. MessagePort
   3. Happycoin: Revisited
      1. With Only the Main Thread
      2. With Four Worker Threads
   4. Worker Pools with Piscina
   5. A Pool Full of Happycoins
6. 4. Shared Memory
   1. Intro to Shared Memory
      1. Shared Memory in the Browser
      2. Shared Memory in Node.js
   2. SharedArrayBuffer and TypedArrays
   3. Atomic Methods for Data Manipulation
      1. Atomics.add()
      2. Atomics.and()
      3. Atomics.compareExchange()
      4. Atomics.exchange()
      5. Atomics.isLockFree()
      6. Atomics.load()
      7. Atomics.or()
      8. Atomics.store()
      9. Atomics.sub()
      10. Atomics.xor()
   4. Atomicity Concerns
   5. Data Serialization
      1. Booleans
      2. Strings
      3. Objects
7. 5. Advanced Shared Memory
   1. Atomic Methods for Coordination
      1. Atomics.wait()
      2. Atomics.notify()
      3. Atomics.waitAsync()
   2. Timing and Nondeterminism
      1. Example of Nondeterminism
      2. Detecting Thread Preparedness
   3. Example Application: Conway’s Game of Life
      1. Single-Threaded Game of Life
      2. Multithreaded Game of Life
   4. Atomics and Events
8. 6. Multithreaded Patterns
   1. Thread Pool
      1. Pool Size
      2. Dispatch Strategies
      3. Example Implementation
   2. Mutex: A Basic Lock
   3. Streaming Data with Ring Buffers
   4. Actor Model
      1. Pattern Nuances
      2. Relating to JavaScript
      3. Example Implementation
9. 7. WebAssembly
   1. Your First WebAssembly
   2. Atomic Operations in WebAssembly
   3. Compiling C Programs to WebAssembly with Emscripten
   4. Other WebAssembly Compilers
   5. AssemblyScript
   6. Happycoin in AssemblyScript
10. 8. Analysis
    1. When Not to Use
       1. Low Memory Constraints
       2. Low Core Count
       3. Containers Versus Threads
    2. When to Use
    3. Summary of Caveats
11. A. Structured Clone Algorithm
12. Index