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		dassurma on June 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When to use web workers I never claimed that Web Workers are the silver bullet that will absolve us from all our problems. On the contrary, I don’t think such a silver bullet will ever exist. I am saying that we should be using web workers to keep the main thread free. That is completely orthogonal to good static design, proper bundling, right caching headers, code splitting, asset hashing etc etc.

whereareyouwow on June 15, 2019 [–]

I agree with you on keeping the main thread free. What are your thoughts on WASM via workers?

dassurma on June 15, 2019 | [–]

We are using loads of Wasm in Workers in https://squoosh.app

Since Wasm is synchronous, I’d say it should almost always be run in workers except if the module needs access to some main-thread-only API.

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