How to do worker-to-worker communication?

Question

I\'m experimenting with web workers, and was wondering how well they would deal with embarassingly parallell problems. I therefore implemented Connaway\'s Game of Life. (To

Answer 1

You should be able to use channel messaging:

var channel = new MessageChannel();
worker1.postMessage({code:"port"}, [channel.port1]);
worker2.postMessage({code:"port"}, [channel.port2]);

Then in your worker threads:

var xWorkerPort;
onmessage = function(event) {
    if (event.data.code == "port") {
        xWorkerPort = event.ports[0];
        xWorkerPort.onmessage = function(event) { /* do stuff */ };
    }
}

There's not much documentation around, but you could try this MS summary to get started.