Recognizing that JavaScript does not give applications access to multiple cores, Intel Labs last week released a parallel JavaScript engine to the open source community, adding data-parallel capabilities to JavaScript to speed up browser-based services such as computer vision, cryptography, and 3-D games.
Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, aims to bring the processing power of the company’s multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions to web applications, allowing users to stay in the browser even for more compute intensive applications such as photo editing.
River Trail is currently available as an add-on to the Firefox web browser