There's a whole missing section of this post; the Extensible Web vision is driving Web Audio to a great place.https://twitter.com/bz_moz/status/908372747000172544 …
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...and it was always a non-starter to have your audio processing running through the main thread. Simply unworkable.
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@w3ctag review generated great conversation that re-opened many fundamental design questions.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
...and we collaboratively worked toward a better design. That design is being implemented now: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/4588498229133312 …
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This new design *doesn't* take the glitch-prone "we'll just do it on the main thread" approach, but gives us scriptability & low latency
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Replying to @slightlylate @w3ctag
Where did anyone ever say main thread only?
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Replying to @BrendanEich @w3ctag
Draft proposal was main thread by default. Same flaw as the old ScriptAudioNode.
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No, there was never any main-thread sample processing in my proposal (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/streams/StreamProcessing.html#processedmediastream …).
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Replying to @rocallahan @slightlylate and
What I proposed wasn't quite as good as AudioWorklet. But we probably could have made it so, if there had been interest.
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What I proposed/implemented was certainly a lot better for scripted sample processing than what Web devs have had in the five years since.
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I think I may have been mistaking the Audio Data API proposal for yours. I had arguments w/ Chris Rogers about js-off-main-thread then too.
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