WebGL in Web Workers, Today – and Faster than Expected! – Mozilla ResearchWeb Workers are additional threads that a website can create. Using workers, a website can utilize multiple CPU cores to speed itself up, or move heavy single-core processing to a background thread to keep the main (UI) thread as responsive as possible. A problem, however, is that many APIs exist only on the main thread, for example WebGL. WebGL is a natural candidate for running in a worker, as i
