parallel-es/src/common/worker/worker-slave.ts

Simple parallelization for EcmaScript

import {WorkerSlaveState} from "./worker-slave-states";
import {SlaveFunctionLookupTable} from "../function/slave-function-lookup-table";
import {IWorkerMessage} from "./worker-messages";

export interface IWorkerSlave {

    /**
     * The unique id of the slave instance
     */
    id: number;

    functionCache: SlaveFunctionLookupTable;

    /**
     * Changes the state of the slave to the new state
     * @param state the new state to assign
     */
    changeState(state: WorkerSlaveState): void;

    /**
     * Executed when the slave receives a message from the ui-thread
     * @param event the received message
     */
    onMessage(event: IWorkerMessage): void;

    postMessage(message: any): void;
}