Pooling Web Workers

Asked Dec 19 '11 at 20:05

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Does anyone know of good patterns/libraries for pooling Web Workers?

I want to be able to do something like the following:

Set a maximum number of threads.
The first time I ask for a Worker it creates a new one.
The next time it will return the previous Worker, unless it is still completing operations, in which case it will create a new one and return that.
Once we hit the maximum it starts queuing requests for workers up and starting them when a Worker becomes available.
This currently assumes the pool would all use the same .js file.

Or is there a better approach to this?

edited Dec 20 '11 at 10:51

asked Dec 19 '11 at 20:05

Andy Hume

Will all these workers be running the same .js file? – robertc Dec 19 '11 at 23:52
Good point - in this case yes. I guess you'd need separate pools for different .js files. I'll update the question to mention that. – Andy Hume Dec 20 '11 at 10:46
jQuery Hive: https://github.com/rwldrn/jquery-hive – Donald T Jan 24 '13 at 19:07
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Off topic for stackoverflow? Bizarre. – Andy Hume Mar 06 '14 at 11:38
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@AndyHume This is a really good question - I've got no idea why it's been closed – Mar 21 '15 at 13:54
are you kidding me? what about this is off topic? why is this closed? – Ren Jul 25 '16 at 12:03

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