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Is there a way to set a Web Worker to low priority?

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I am thinking of using Web Workers to provide some background functionality while a user is browsing my website (that's what Web Workers are for, right?). However, I don't want to take the risk of compromising the user experience by causing laggy scrolling, unresponsive controls, etc. Web Workers are mapped on OS threads, hence I would expect some control on the priority of these threads however, as far as I know, there's no such thing in the current API. Do you know a how to accomplish this? Even with a hack?



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  1. UserMay 11, 2012 at 4:51 AM

    Well, there's no API call to control low-level details like this. However, I think you should first implement what you want to do and then test if the performance hit is too great on the user experience. I'm assuming that since they did not add fine control over how the threads execute, they're probably well managed by the underlying implementation.

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