[webkit-dev] GlobalScript in WebKit

[Oliver Hunt]

> In Chrome, a SharedWorker is reachable from any WebKit process, whereas a SharedScript would only be reachable within a WebKit process.  This is an interesting distinction, and I can imagine some use cases for SharedWorker that SharedScript could not address.  (This distinction arises because we did not want to build a script proxy between WebKit processes as that would be quite costly.)
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> For example, suppose you wanted to have only one instance of a web app responsible for manipulating a database or communicating with a server.  There's no guarantee that multiple instances of a web app would all run in the same WebKit process.

What you seem to be implying is that a "SharedScript" would not actually achieve the one thing it is intended to gain -- a common context for all instances of a page.

> 
> -Darin
--Oliver

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