How fast are web workers? – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blogThe next version of Firefox OS, the mobile operating system, will unleash the power of devices by taking full advantage of their multi-core processors. Classically, JavaScript has been executed on a single thread, but web workers offer a way to execute code in parallel. Doing so frees the browser of anything that may get in the way of the main thread so that it can smoothly animate the UI. A brief
