diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2e0245f..89eb5c1 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -114,6 +114,21 @@ version = "0.8.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "06ea2b9bc92be3c2baa9334a323ebca2d6f074ff852cd1d7b11064035cd3868f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-queue"
+version = "0.3.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "df0346b5d5e76ac2fe4e327c5fd1118d6be7c51dfb18f9b7922923f287471e35"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-utils"
+version = "0.8.19"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "248e3bacc7dc6baa3b21e405ee045c3047101a49145e7e9eca583ab4c2ca5345"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "encoding_rs"
 version = "0.8.34"
@@ -382,6 +397,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "reqwest",
  "rquickjs",
  "tokio",
+ "tub",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -446,6 +462,16 @@ version = "0.4.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "01cda141df6706de531b6c46c3a33ecca755538219bd484262fa09410c13539c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "lock_api"
+version = "0.4.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "07af8b9cdd281b7915f413fa73f29ebd5d55d0d3f0155584dade1ff18cea1b17"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "scopeguard",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "log"
 version = "0.4.21"
@@ -571,6 +597,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "vcpkg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "parking_lot"
+version = "0.12.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "7e4af0ca4f6caed20e900d564c242b8e5d4903fdacf31d3daf527b66fe6f42fb"
+dependencies = [
+ "lock_api",
+ "parking_lot_core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "parking_lot_core"
+version = "0.9.10"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1e401f977ab385c9e4e3ab30627d6f26d00e2c73eef317493c4ec6d468726cf8"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+ "redox_syscall",
+ "smallvec",
+ "windows-targets 0.52.5",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "percent-encoding"
 version = "2.3.1"
@@ -633,6 +682,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "redox_syscall"
+version = "0.5.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "469052894dcb553421e483e4209ee581a45100d31b4018de03e5a7ad86374a7e"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.5.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "regex"
 version = "1.10.4"
@@ -782,6 +840,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.52.0",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "scopeguard"
+version = "1.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "94143f37725109f92c262ed2cf5e59bce7498c01bcc1502d7b9afe439a4e9f49"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "security-framework"
 version = "2.10.0"
@@ -848,6 +912,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "signal-hook-registry"
+version = "1.4.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a9e9e0b4211b72e7b8b6e85c807d36c212bdb33ea8587f7569562a84df5465b1"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.9"
@@ -949,7 +1022,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
  "mio",
  "num_cpus",
+ "parking_lot",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "signal-hook-registry",
  "socket2",
  "tokio-macros",
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
@@ -1044,6 +1119,16 @@ version = "0.2.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "e421abadd41a4225275504ea4d6566923418b7f05506fbc9c0fe86ba7396114b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tub"
+version = "0.3.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6bca43faba247bc76eb1d6c1b8b561e4a1c5bdd427cc3d7a007faabea75c683a"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-queue",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-bidi"
 version = "0.3.15"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ba335d5..20f7085 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 [dependencies]
 regex = "1.10.4"
 rquickjs = {version = "0.6.0", features=["futures"]}
-tokio = {version = "1.37.0", features=["net", "macros", "rt-multi-thread", "io-std", "io-util"]}
+tokio = { version = "1.37.0", features = ["full", "net", "macros", "rt-multi-thread", "io-std", "io-util"] }
 reqwest = "0.12.4"
 lazy-regex = "3.1.0"
+tub = "0.3.7"
diff --git a/src/jobs.rs b/src/jobs.rs
index 0aa797f..e6e6517 100644
--- a/src/jobs.rs
+++ b/src/jobs.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
-use std::sync::Arc;
-use tokio::sync::Mutex;
+use regex::Regex;
+use rquickjs::{AsyncContext, AsyncRuntime};
+use std::{num::NonZeroUsize, ops::Deref, sync::Arc, thread::available_parallelism};
+use tokio::{runtime::Handle, sync::Mutex, task::block_in_place};
+use tub::Pool;
 
-use crate::consts::{REGEX_PLAYER_ID, TEST_YOUTUBE_VIDEO};
+use crate::consts::{NSIG_FUNCTION_ARRAY, REGEX_PLAYER_ID, TEST_YOUTUBE_VIDEO};
 
 pub enum JobOpcode {
     ForceUpdate,
@@ -20,21 +23,89 @@ impl From<u8> for JobOpcode {
 }
 
 pub struct PlayerInfo {
-    nsig_function_bytecode: Vec<u8>,
+    nsig_function_code: Vec<u8>,
     player_id: u32,
 }
+
+pub struct JavascriptInterpreter {
+    js_runtime: AsyncRuntimeWrapper,
+    nsig_context: AsyncContextWrapper,
+    nsig_function_name: String,
+    player_id: u32,
+}
+
+// This is to get Rust to shut up, since the types are aliases for non-null pointers
+struct AsyncRuntimeWrapper(AsyncRuntime);
+struct AsyncContextWrapper(AsyncContext);
+
+unsafe impl Send for AsyncRuntimeWrapper {}
+unsafe impl Send for AsyncContextWrapper {}
+unsafe impl Sync for AsyncRuntimeWrapper {}
+unsafe impl Sync for AsyncContextWrapper {}
+impl Deref for AsyncRuntimeWrapper {
+    type Target = AsyncRuntime;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        &self.0
+    }
+}
+
+impl Deref for AsyncContextWrapper {
+    type Target = AsyncContext;
+
+    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
+        &self.0
+    }
+}
+
+impl JavascriptInterpreter {
+    pub fn new() -> JavascriptInterpreter {
+        let js_runtime = AsyncRuntime::new().unwrap();
+        // not ideal, but this is only done at startup
+        let nsig_context = block_in_place(|| {
+            Handle::current()
+                .block_on(AsyncContext::full(&js_runtime))
+                .unwrap()
+        });
+        JavascriptInterpreter {
+            js_runtime: AsyncRuntimeWrapper(js_runtime),
+            nsig_context: AsyncContextWrapper(nsig_context),
+            nsig_function_name: Default::default(),
+            player_id: 0,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 pub struct GlobalState {
     player_info: Mutex<PlayerInfo>,
+    js_runtime_pool: Mutex<Pool<Arc<JavascriptInterpreter>>>,
+    all_runtimes: Mutex<Vec<Arc<JavascriptInterpreter>>>,
 }
 
 impl GlobalState {
     pub fn new() -> GlobalState {
-        return GlobalState {
+        let number_of_runtimes = available_parallelism()
+            .unwrap_or(NonZeroUsize::new(1).unwrap())
+            .get();
+        let mut runtime_vector: Vec<Arc<JavascriptInterpreter>> =
+            Vec::with_capacity(number_of_runtimes);
+        runtime_vector
+            .iter_mut()
+            .for_each(|a| *a = Arc::new(JavascriptInterpreter::new()));
+
+        // Make a clone of the vector, this will clone all the values inside (Arc)
+        let mut runtime_vector2: Vec<Arc<JavascriptInterpreter>> =
+            Vec::with_capacity(number_of_runtimes);
+        runtime_vector2.clone_from(&runtime_vector);
+        let runtime_pool: Pool<Arc<JavascriptInterpreter>> = Pool::from_vec(runtime_vector2);
+        GlobalState {
             player_info: Mutex::new(PlayerInfo {
-                nsig_function_bytecode: Default::default(),
+                nsig_function_code: Default::default(),
                 player_id: Default::default(),
             }),
-        };
+            js_runtime_pool: Mutex::new(runtime_pool),
+            all_runtimes: Mutex::new(runtime_vector),
+        }
     }
 }
 pub async fn process_fetch_update(state: Arc<GlobalState>) {
@@ -47,7 +118,7 @@ pub async fn process_fetch_update(state: Arc<GlobalState>) {
         }
     };
 
-    let player_id_str = match REGEX_PLAYER_ID.captures(&response).unwrap().get(0) {
+    let player_id_str = match REGEX_PLAYER_ID.captures(&response).unwrap().get(1) {
         Some(result) => result.as_str(),
         None => return,
     };
@@ -56,6 +127,7 @@ pub async fn process_fetch_update(state: Arc<GlobalState>) {
 
     let current_player_info = global_state.player_info.lock().await;
     let current_player_id = current_player_info.player_id;
+    // release the mutex for other tasks
     drop(current_player_info);
 
     if player_id == current_player_id {
@@ -75,5 +147,22 @@ pub async fn process_fetch_update(state: Arc<GlobalState>) {
             return;
         }
     };
+
+    let nsig_function_array = NSIG_FUNCTION_ARRAY.captures(&player_javascript).unwrap();
+    let nsig_array_name = nsig_function_array.get(1).unwrap().as_str();
+    let nsig_array_value = usize::from_str_radix(nsig_function_array.get(2).unwrap().as_str(), 10);
+
+    let mut nsig_array_context_regex: String = String::new();
+    nsig_array_context_regex += "var ";
+    nsig_array_context_regex += nsig_array_name;
+    nsig_array_context_regex += "\\s*=\\s*\\[(.+?)][;,]";
+
+    let nsig_array_context = match Regex::new(&nsig_array_context_regex) {
+        Ok(x) => x,
+        Err(x) => {
+            println!("Error: nsig regex compilation failed: {}", x);
+            return;
+        }
+    };
 }
-pub async fn process_decrypt_n_signature(state: Arc<GlobalState>, sig: String) {}
+pub async fn process_decrypt_n_signature(_state: Arc<GlobalState>, _sig: String) {}