On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Ryan Dahl wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 10/11/2011, at 01:18, Jorge wrote: >>> On 09/11/2011, at 19:49, Jeff Fifield wrote: >>> >>>> How is your proposal better/worse/same/different than webworkers or just >>>> communicating with a pool of worker processes? >>> >>> I'm not sure, we'll see. >> >> One more thing: >> >> The ability to launch a pool of node *processes* (not threads), + the >> ability to inter communicate them, with a good API that makes it easy (and >> fast), is at least as important as (if not more than) the need to run an >> in-process cpu-bound task asynchronously, without blocking the event loop, >> in the background. >> >> The former is being developed by ry and co. (RyCo, SF), it's the .fork() >> thingy. >> But the latter is not, and that's what I'm trying to address with this. >> >> There's a reason for wanting the latter: if you delegate a long running >> cpu-bound task to a node worker *process*, you're gonna block its event loop. >> That means that it will in fact go 'offline' for the duration of the task! >> Not so with b/g threads. > > I'm not sure what you mean about blocking here... > >> OTOH, the OS resources such a file descriptors available to a single node >> process are not unlimited: it's easy to hit the limit if you try e.g. to >> open 100k files at once. This kind of problems are solved by a pool of >> (well) interconnected node processes, but not with threads. > > > We're also adding Isolate support for v0.8. We should combine forces. > Let's talk on IRC.
Today is the D day, finally: JavaScript threads for Node.js (using v8 isolates): https://github.com/xk/node-threads-a-gogo npm install threads_a_gogo Special thanks to: Bruno Jouhier and Liam Breck. Enjoy! -- Jorge. -- 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
