Sorry for misrepresenting. I hadn't heard of the change. Nice work. :Marco
On Friday, February 10, 2012 10:56:43 AM UTC-8, Marcel wrote: > > 2) As of node 0.6.0, node-fibers is just a module. It never was a fork, > but in node 0.4.0 it was much more of a hack. In node 0.6.0 it works just > like any other module, you install it, require it, and use it. > > 3) Depending on how you use fibers, it may be possible to rewrite your > code using generators, it may not be. Fibers will give you a superset of > functionality and it's up to you to look at what generators will be and > build your code to support them in the future if that's what you want. > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Mikeal Rogers > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> fibers and generators (as described in harmony) have a large delta >> between them. >> >> if you read the harmony spec for generators you'll notice that the yield >> statement pushes it's way all the way up the call stack so you can't >> abstract it away the same way common-node does with fibers. >> >> what you should probably do is just use normal node, the way 99% of the >> community does :) >> >> >> On Feb 10, 2012, at February 10, 20121:35 PM, Marco Rogers wrote: >> >> 1) node will support harmony generators the second they are stable in v8. >> The language evolves with v8, node doesn't touch it. >> >> 2) To my knowledge, node-fibers is a fork of node with patches to both >> node and v8 to enable fibers. So you can't just run node, you have to run >> node-fibers. >> >> 3) I think it would be very easy to paint yourself into a corner here. >> But there are lots of abstractions on top of fibers that could possibly be >> implemented later with generators instead. Keep in mind that when you dig >> into the details, fibers seem to allow deeper semantic changes in node than >> the version of generators in harmony. I'm not the best person to explain >> the difference, but I've understood enough of the talk to know they are not >> equivalent paradigms. Generators enable a subset of functionality that >> fibers does. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> :Marco >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
