And you can now write CPU intensive functions directly in Javascript, and run them in a separate thread: https://github.com/xk/node-threads-a-gogo.
On Friday, April 6, 2012 9:22:29 PM UTC+2, Tim Caswell wrote: > > Keep in mind that the nextTick hack technique still blocks your CPU. It's > just broken up into many small parts. If you must do something that's > truly CPU intensive, put it on a thread or another process. Most modern > machines (even phones) have multiple CPU cores. > > Interprocess communication is a fairly well solved problem in node. There > is the built-in cluster module, there is the child_process.fork function > (somewhat like a webworker, but using a full child process). Then in > userland there are things like dnode, hook.io, architect-protocol that > provide various levels of abstraction. > > If you're writing a C addon then libuv provides a couple interfaces to do > work in a thread. If what you doing is numerically intensive, doing it in > javascript is probably a bad idea to begin with. Either write a node addon > and do the hard work in C or talk to another process via sockets/tcp/stdio. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:02 PM, mscdex <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Apr 6, 2:38 pm, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > In any case, here is a loop that runs until cond is true ... >> > >> > function processOneTick() { >> > // do work for one tick >> > if (!cond) setTimeout processOneTick, 0} >> > >> > processOneTick() >> >> May as well use process.nextTick() instead for that approach. >> >> -- >> 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
