Investigate using a web worker?

[cannoneyed]

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[flekschas]

I am curious about your plans. Are you planning to integrate webworker support natively? I was able to wrap UMAP-js in a webworker and it seems to work fine.

[cannoneyed]

Yeah, it's pretty straightforward to wrap up in a web worker if you need to, but it'd be extra awesome if the lib could bootstrap itself into a web worker if it was so configured... I think this is actually a really wild, tricky thing to do (and probably isn't worth the effort), but it sure would be neat!

[jebeck]

I've packaged Workers into libraries before, and this would be useful to me as well, so I'm going to give it a shot. LMK if for some reason you're not open to a PR on this! I'll aim for backwards-compatibility with the current imports of course. That is, current imports will still be non-Worker, but there will be another set of imports that will put the compute in a Worker.

[igaloly]

Hi all @flekschas @cannoneyed @jebeck, can you share your script?

[flekschas]

@igaloly For one approach see:

• https://github.com/flekschas/piling.js/blob/master/src/umap.js
• https://github.com/flekschas/piling.js/blob/master/src/umap-worker.js