Just to make sure this gets attention... Lars Hansen's Shared Memory and Atomics proposal is at stage 2:
- https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem - https://github.com/rwaldron/tc39-notes/blob/master/es7/2016-07/jul-28.md#10iia-shared-memory-and-atomics - https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem/blob/master/tc39/sharedmem-jul-2016.pdf Rick On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:34 PM Isiah Meadows <[email protected]> wrote: > Chrome/V8 has it behind a flag IIRC. I forget its exact name, but I know > it exists. > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016, 12:12 J Decker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Michał Wadas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Why you can't solve it with shared memory buffer? Shared - I mean instance > of *SharedArrayBuffer. * > > not in node; in browser ya... where webworkers are threads. (and not in > javascript base) > And while firefox is beginning to look appealing again I'm stuck on chrome > (native android) > > > On 3 Nov 2016 5:05 p.m., "J Decker" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Michał Wadas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Actually, is there any problem that can't be easily solved with > message-passing for high-level structures or low-level shared memory > buffers? > > > Yes, meshing dynamic geometries that involve a few 20k faces. If you > have a thread do the work, the overhead of srealizing the resulting buffers > will kill any benefit. > > But; typed arrays can be shared also. (they are with C++ addons in node) > > The biggest problem with node's lack of threads is they really need > separate but equal heaps. I heard that there's a global heap lock... that > wouldn't be required except when allocating addition space for each heap. > > > > To the general - stop treating programmers like idiots. Give us the > rope. Let us hang ourselves. > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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