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		pcwalton on Aug 3, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla’s new (internal) JavaScript value represen... JavaScript will never support threads in the usual sense, as long as /be has his say: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2007/02/thre... So JS won't need fine-grained locking in the foreseeable future.

jimbokun on Aug 3, 2010 [–]

"A requirement for JS3 (along with hygienic macros)"

Did anything ever come of hygienic macros for JavaScript? (first time I heard that)

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