Really like the work! Shared nothing (well, message passing) is a great way to handle concurrency inside a process for node. I would suggest a means to prioritize threads if possible (consumers and producers can have different priorities). Is there an easy way to just disable the 'puts' variable or just override it for every eval?
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 1:23:49 PM UTC-6, Jorge wrote: > > 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
