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Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX | |
| Subject: | Javascript in browsers is single threaded | |
| Date: | 2006-04-06 00:41:23 | |
| From: | ChristopheGrand | |
| Javascript is singlethreaded but a scheduled (setInterval or setTimeout) or event-driven callback can be executed in the midst of another computation. | ||
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Javascript in browsers is single threaded
2006-04-06 07:33:09 jdodds [View]
Regardless of what you think the threading model is, if event handling can happen "in the midst of another computation" then you have the grounds for a race condition.
