Vinay D S

Software Development Engineer - 3

Vinay is a software developer from India. He has Master’s degree in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani, India. He is a Tech Enthusiast, Likes to explore in the field of UI/Frontend Web Developemt. Interested in JavaScript, React.js, Next.js tech stacks.

Vinay has worked at Sixt since 2021, working with Branch Operations, DCC Teams.

Posts by Vinay D S:

• Web Workers API: Multithreading in JavaScript

  Nov 4, 2022 • Vinay D S • Engineering

  If you have been using Javascript, you may know, that it is a single-threaded scripting language that works within HTML files. This means only one statement is executed at a time.

  However, we are also aware that JS has asynchronous behavior with which we can achieve concurrency. But, Asynchrony is not multithreading, as it is also dependent on a single thread. To some extent, even asynchronous operations block the DOM rendering on the browser.

  Multithreading enables processing of multiple threads at once, rather than multiple processes. By incorporating multithreading, programs can perform multiple operations at once.

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