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Concurrency and Parallel Computing in JavaScript
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Summary
Stephan Herhut overviews concurrency and parallelism in JavaScript and the HTML5, discussing actors, futures and what throughput computing in the browser looks like.
Bio
Stephan Herhut is a Research Scientist at Intel Labs where he works on improving programmability of parallel architectures. He is enthusiastic about increasing programmers's productivity without sacrificing performance goals. Lately, he is working to bring the performance of parallel hardware to JavaScript without destroying its soul.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Mar 05, 2014