A Comparison of Web Workers
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Compares dedicated workers, shared workers, and service workers in the browser: explains that web workers enable multithreading and can use shared memory for performance, details that dedicated workers run on a separate thread with a single parent, that shared workers can have multiple parents for cross-window communication, and that service workers can intercept/proxy network requests to enable caching and progressive web apps.
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