WebGL, WebCL, MultiCores: The State and Future of Parallel Javascript in the Browser with RiverTrail

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JavaScript has remained sequential although parallel processing capabilities are currently available even on mobile devices. Intel Labs has been working on an extension of JavaScript that takes advantage of multi-core systems and has released a Firefox plugin. InfoQ had an exclusive interview with  Stephan Herhut from Intel Labs about this work.

•  By  W. Schuster and D. Synodinos on Nov 12, 2011,
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