Just curious, what does this add over node-webworkers and similar approaches?
On Mar 7, 8:23 pm, Jorge <[email protected]> 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
