VictorTaelin/WebMonkeys

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A JavaScript library that lets you spawn thousands of parallel tasks on the GPU through a minimal set/get/work API, using GLSL 1.0 without requiring WebGL extensions. It works both in the browser (with browserify) and in Node.js.

Use cases

• run massively parallel computations on the gpu from javascript
• square or transform large arrays in parallel
• prototype gpu algorithms without learning webgl
• mine cryptocurrency hashes on the gpu
• do vector and matrix math in parallel in node
• offload cpu-heavy number crunching to the gpu

When to choose

• you want the simplest possible gpu programming api in javascript
• you need parallel array processing in the browser or node without webgl boilerplate
• you're prototyping gpu algorithms with glsl

When to avoid

• you need modern gpu features like compute shaders or webgpu
• you need high-performance production gpgpu with fine control over memory and kernels
• your workload is small enough that gpu transfer overhead outweighs gains

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

gpu-computing concurrency developer-tools developer-tools gpu-computing browser gpgpu webgl parallel-computing glsl algorithms nodejs javascript

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