feat: change workers to use a dedicated iframe that for now is hosted. This should unlock a dedicated thread per worker and prevent cpu fighting

src/message.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ export const handleIncomingMessage = function (event: any) {
     return;
   }
 
+  if (event.origin.endsWith(".module.kernel.lumeweb.com")) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   // Input validation.
   if (!("method" in event.data)) {
     logErr("handleIncomingMessage", "kernel request is missing 'method' field");

src/queries.ts

@@ -23,10 +23,11 @@ import {
   store as moduleStore,
 } from "./modules.js";
 import { blake3 } from "@noble/hashes/blake3";
+import Worker from "./worker.js";
 
 // WorkerLaunchFn is the type signature of the function that launches the
 // worker to set up for processing a query.
-type WorkerLaunchFn = () => [Worker, Err];
+type WorkerLaunchFn = () => Promise<[Worker, Err]>;
 
 // modules is a hashmap that maps from a domain to the module that handles
 // queries to that domain. It maintains the domain and URL of the module so
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ type WorkerLaunchFn = () => [Worker, Err];
 // a new worker gets launched for every query.
 interface Module {
   domain: string;
-  url: string;
+  code: Uint8Array;
   launchWorker: WorkerLaunchFn;
   worker?: Worker;
 }
@@ -223,20 +224,16 @@ async function createModule(
   workerCode: Uint8Array,
   domain: string,
 ): Promise<[Module | null, Err]> {
-  // Generate the URL for the worker code.
-  const url = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([workerCode]));
-
   // Create the module object.
   const mod: Module = {
     domain,
-    url,
-    launchWorker: function (): [Worker, Err] {
+    code: workerCode,
+    launchWorker: function (): Promise<[Worker, Err]> {
       return launchWorker(mod);
     },
   };
-
   // Start worker
-  const [worker, err] = mod.launchWorker();
+  const [worker, err] = await mod.launchWorker();
   if (err !== null) {
     return [{} as Module, addContextToErr(err, "unable to launch worker")];
   }
@@ -247,11 +244,12 @@ async function createModule(
 
 // launchWorker will launch a worker and perform all the setup so that the
 // worker is ready to receive a query.
-function launchWorker(mod: Module): [Worker, Err] {
+async function launchWorker(mod: Module): Promise<[Worker, Err]> {
   // Create and launch the worker.
   let worker: Worker;
   try {
-    worker = new Worker(mod.url);
+    worker = new Worker(mod.code, CID.decode(mod.domain));
+    await worker.ready;
   } catch (err: any) {
     logErr("worker", mod.domain, "unable to create worker", mod.domain, err);
     return [
@@ -260,6 +258,9 @@ function launchWorker(mod: Module): [Worker, Err] {
     ];
   }
 
+  // clean up memory, we don't need the code anymore
+  mod.code = new Uint8Array();
+
   // Set the onmessage and onerror functions.
   worker.onmessage = function (event: MessageEvent) {
     handleWorkerMessage(event, mod, worker);
@@ -321,7 +322,6 @@ async function handleModuleCall(
     );
     return;
   }
-
   let validCid = false;
   let isResolver = false;
   if (
@@ -588,8 +588,12 @@ async function handleModuleCall(
       await (await moduleStore()).put(finalModule, moduleData);
     }
 
+    if (!(moduleData instanceof Uint8Array)) {
+      moduleData = new TextEncoder().encode(moduleData);
+    }
+
     // Create a new module.
-    const [mod, errCM] = await createModule(moduleData, moduleDomain);
+    const [mod, errCM] = await createModule(moduleData, finalModule);
     if (errCM !== null) {
       const err = addContextToErr(errCM, "unable to create module");
       respondErr(event, messagePortal, isWorker, isInternal, err);

src/worker.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import { CID } from "@lumeweb/libs5";
+import { defer } from "@lumeweb/libkernel/module";
+
+type WorkerMessage = (this: Worker, ev: MessageEvent) => any;
+type WorkerError = (this: Worker, ev: ErrorEvent) => any;
+
+export default class Worker {
+  private _code: Uint8Array;
+  private _errorHandler?: WorkerError;
+  private _messageHandler?: WorkerMessage;
+  private _iframe: HTMLIFrameElement;
+  private _iframeDefer = defer();
+  private _cid: CID;
+
+  constructor(code: Uint8Array, cid: CID) {
+    this._code = code;
+    this._cid = cid;
+
+    const iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
+    iframe.src = this.getModuleUrl();
+    iframe.onload = () => {
+      this._postMessage({
+        method: "workerInit",
+        module: this._code,
+      });
+    };
+
+    this._iframe = iframe;
+
+    document.body.appendChild(iframe);
+
+    window.addEventListener("message", (event: MessageEvent) => {
+      if (event.source !== iframe.contentWindow) {
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (event.data.method === "workerMessage") {
+        this._messageHandler?.(
+          new MessageEvent("worker", { data: event.data.data }),
+        );
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (event.data.method === "workerError") {
+        this._errorHandler?.(
+          new ErrorEvent("worker", {
+            message: event.data.data.message,
+            error: event.data.data.error,
+          }),
+        );
+        return;
+      }
+
+      if (event.data.method === "workerInited") {
+        this._iframeDefer.resolve();
+        return;
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  set onmessage(handler: (this: Worker, ev: MessageEvent) => any) {
+    this._messageHandler = handler;
+  }
+
+  set onerror(handler: (this: Worker, ev: ErrorEvent) => any) {
+    this._errorHandler = handler;
+  }
+
+  get ready(): Promise<any> {
+    return this._iframeDefer.promise;
+  }
+
+  postMessage(message: any) {
+    this._iframeDefer.promise.then(() => {
+      this._postMessage(message);
+    });
+  }
+
+  _postMessage(message: any) {
+    this._iframe.contentWindow!.postMessage(message, this.getModuleUrl());
+  }
+
+  private getModuleUrl() {
+    return `https://${this._cid.toBase32()}.module.kernel.lumeweb.com`;
+  }
+}