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Hi,

This is terrific.

I'm just wondering why you've opted to use generators instead of worker threads and shared memory with the Atomics API (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/05/a-taste-of-javascripts-new-parallel-primitives/)

You can do everything with worker threads and shared memory that you're doing with generators but use all CPU cores.

Are you aware of any disadvantages?

EDIT:

The scenario the encloses the question above is having a realtime dashboard based on IMGUI (immediate mode graphics) pattern and using 2D Canvas or WebGL context for drawing. In this scenario, we can have workers sharing a virtual canvas (shared 2D array representing pixels) and each worker is in charge of updating a virtual widget on that canvas. On the main UI thread, we read from that 2D array and draw on canvas.