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WebAssembly PostMessage

Category
JavaScript
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 71)
Intent stage
None

Summary

Extends WebAssembly to support PostMessage of WebAssembly.Module objects to Web Workers. To clarify, this is scoped to just Web Workers (same process, different thread), and not extended to cross-process scenarios (such as cross-origin postMessage, or shared web workers).

Standards & signals

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