JavaScript Concurrency Models

Abstract

As soon as most of the modern applications are deployed on the web, JavaScript has become a mainstream programming environment. JavaScript applications nowadays should support heavyweight web applications. We can mention here online games, graphics, media management, and even data mining. In the same time, processors on computing devices (including mobile terminals) are getting more and more elaborated. For example, it is common to see heterogeneous processors, comprised of both CPUs and GPUs almost everywhere. It creates a natural demand to parallelism in the programming tools. In this paper, we provide a survey of parallel programming models in JavaScript.