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Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

By : Ved Antani, Stoyan STEFANOV
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Book Image

Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition

5 (1)
By: Ved Antani, Stoyan STEFANOV

Overview of this book

JavaScript is an object-oriented programming language that is used for website development. Web pages developed today currently follow a paradigm that has three clearly distinguishable parts: content (HTML), presentation (CSS), and behavior (JavaScript). JavaScript is one important pillar in this paradigm, and is responsible for the running of the web pages. This book will take your JavaScript skills to a new level of sophistication and get you prepared for your journey through professional web development. Updated for ES6, this book covers everything you will need to unleash the power of object-oriented programming in JavaScript while building professional web applications. The book begins with the basics of object-oriented programming in JavaScript and then gradually progresses to cover functions, objects, and prototypes, and how these concepts can be used to make your programs cleaner, more maintainable, faster, and compatible with other programs/libraries. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to incorporate object-oriented programming in your web development workflow to build professional JavaScript applications.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Object-Oriented JavaScript - Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Built-in Functions
Regular Expressions

Asynchronous programming model


The third model is what interests us the most. In this model, tasks are interleaved in a single thread of control. Consider the following figure:

The asynchronous model is simpler because you have only one thread. When you are executing one task, you are sure that only that task is being executed. This model doesn't require complex mechanism for inter-thread coordination and, hence, is more predictable. There is one more difference between the threaded and the asynchronous models; in the threaded model, you don't have a way to control the thread execution as the thread scheduling is mostly done by the operating system. However, in the asynchronous model, there is no such challenge.

In which scenarios can the asynchronous model outperform the synchronous model? If we are simply splitting tasks into smaller chunks, intuitively, even the smaller chunks will take quite an amount of time when you add them up in the end.

There is a significant factor we have not yet...