Well libuv does have thread stuff: 
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/blob/master/src/uv-common.c#L271-318
So I would say it would be possible to implement this stuff on top of libuv

On Monday, June 18, 2012 at 10:56 AM, rtweed wrote:

> Thanks Jeroen!
> 
> Hope a Windows port proves possible - looks very promising for an idea
> I have in mind. I'll use clusters instead for now and see how I get
> on with that.
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Jun 18, 8:59 am, Jeroen Janssen <[email protected] 
> (http://gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As far as I can tell threads-a-gogo uses pthreads directly, so it will
> > not work without some "porting" work. I am not sure if libuv provides
> > enough api points to implement this module directly on top of libuv
> > (i.e. as a 'platform abstraction').
> > 
> > Also it seems this module is still using node-waf to compile instead
> > of using node-gyp. I don't know how long node-waf will still be
> > supported.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Jeroen
> > 
> > On Jun 18, 9:19 am, rtweed <[email protected] (http://gmail.com)> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Could anyone confirm whether or not the threads_a_gogo module is
> > > available for Windows?  If not, are there plans to make it available
> > > for Windows?  It's not mentioned anywhere in the module's
> > > documentation (that I could find, at least)
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > > My attempt to install it using npm install threads_a_gogo suggests it
> > > isn't:
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > > > [email protected] install C:\node\node_modules\threads_a_gogo
> > > > node-waf configure install
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 'node-waf' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > > operable program or batch file.
> > > npm ERR! error installing [email protected]
> > > npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-waf configure install`
> > > npm ERR! `cmd "/c" "node-waf configure install"` failed with 1
> > > npm ERR!
> > > npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
> > > npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the threads_a_gogo
> > > package,
> > > npm ERR! not with npm itself.
> > > npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
> > > npm ERR!     node-waf configure install
> > > npm ERR! You can get their info via:
> > > npm ERR!     npm owner ls threads_a_gogo
> > > npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
> > > npm ERR!
> > > npm ERR! System Windows_NT 5.1.2600
> > > npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program
> > > Files\\nod
> > > ejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "threads_a_gogo"
> > > npm ERR! cwd C:\node
> > > npm ERR! node -v v0.6.6
> > > npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-beta-4
> > > npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
> > > npm ERR! message [email protected] install: `node-waf configure
> > > install`
> > > npm ERR! message `cmd "/c" "node-waf configure install"` failed with 1
> > > npm ERR!
> > > npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
> > > npm ERR!     C:\node\npm-debug.log
> > > npm not ok
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Thanks for any help/advice anyone can give
> > 
> > > Rob
> 
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