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adzm 54 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The browser's main thread is expensive

I wish await in JavaScript could conditionally yield. Instead I end up having to use arounds like if (shouldYield()) await do yield();

baxuz 54 days ago | [–]

There's an RFC or two to spawn threads so I'm looking forward to that. The current way of workers + messages is tedious as hell.

silverwind 54 days ago | [–]

Isn't that basically AsyncGenerator?

adzm 53 days ago | [–]

Not really, that still yields on every invocation

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