Could JavaScript have synchronous await?(2ality.com)

4 pointsby Kerrickel año pasado1 comments

Could JavaScript have synchronous await?

https://2ality.com/2025/03/sync-await.html

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starmoleel año pasado

You can emulate synchronous await by using a worker thread, marshal your async operation to the main thread, then in the worker use Atomics.wait() to blocking wait on a SharedArrayBuffer variable. Once the async operation completes on main, write back the result to the SharedArrayBuffer and wake up the waiting variable. I believe that's also what emscripten uses to emulate synchronous posix calls.