Am I the only one that thinks that we talk about Callback Hell only because
we are not used to used callback everywhere ?

Naouak, Grade 2 de Kobal.
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 22:01, Joe Ferner <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think I'm done writing benchmarks.  Even if I come up with a
> benchmark that shows streamline is faster I'm still not going to use
> it and I couldn't recommend anyone else use it either. The community
> as a whole doesn't back that kind of syntax so I couldn't submit a
> module to npm if I wrote it using streamline. As I said before I can't
> easily run my unit tests or deploy to my server environment. From the
> little that I used it, it screws up the stack trace, you get weird
> errors like "Function contains async calls but does not have _
> parameter" which IMO shouldn't be an error at all. And it obscures
> what is really going on under the covers which you pointed out quite
> well in your most recent comments.
>
> On Apr 10, 3:24 pm, Bruno Jouhier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Still, your bench is wrong because the two programs do different things:
> >
> > * The streamline program calls socket.write from the callback of the
> > previous socket.write. So it does proper flow control and it won't
> overflow
> > output buffers.
> > * The callback program calls socket.write in a loop, without chaining
> them
> > through the callbacks. No flow control here!
> >
> > So please, go back to the drawing board and come back with a fair bench.
> >
> > Hint: the callback version should not run the bench with a for loop, it
> > should transform the loop into a recursion (which is what streamline
> does).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:32:45 PM UTC+2, Joe Ferner wrote:
> >
> > > On Apr 10, 11:12 am, Bruno Jouhier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Your bench does not make sense. There is no async call at all. So
> there
> > > is no reason to have an _ in the streamline source.
> >
> > > > Streamline does not transform sync fonctions. So the Streamline
> version
> > > of this bench should take 3 ms.
> >
> > > > Callback != asynchronous
> >
> > > > Try again with an async call
> >
> > > I was trying to demonstrate the call overhead but here is an example
> > > with some async codehttps://gist.github.com/2352116again a bit
> > > contrived because I really didn't want to spend much time on this.
> >
> > > streamline did close the gap a bit which is what I suspected when I
> > > said "I will agree that for many real world cases this is a tiny piece
> > > of the overall time". But it was still twice as slow. (node 565ms and
> > > streamline 1049ms)
>
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