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Web Workers, Shared Memory, and Atomics

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Performing work on separate threads with Web Workers
Sending messages to and from Web Workers
Sending data to Web Workers
Stopping workers with terminate
Creating SharedArrayBuffer
Sending SharedArrayBuffer to a Web Worker
Reading SharedArray from multiple Web Workers
Using Atomics to coordinate use of shared memory
Using promises to provide a simple interface for a worker

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