Threading the needle with concurrency and parallelism in the Component Model

Luke Wagner - Fastly

The talk will summarize where we are with the release of 0.3.0 in our support for async-style concurrency and then describe the emerging plan to also support thread-style concurrency layered on the Core WebAssembly shared-everything-threads proposal. While the high-level goals around supporting pthreads, goroutines, workers and other languages’ built-in threading concepts are clear, there are some interesting interactions to consider in the context of the Component Model concerning non-threaded code, structured concurrency and parallelism. This talk will discuss the plan for these interactions and how ultimately these different styles of concurrency can compose, particularly in multi-component, multi-language scenarios.

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