> ... what's a non-blocking event loop

An imaginary mash-up of different concepts.  It was a brain-fart.

Actually, it could make sense if you think of it as an event loop that
calls non-blocking code on each tick.


On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote:

> Please stop, this thread is *NOT* about threads.
>
> Let's just gossip about what Crockford says in this talk: <
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HzclYKz4yQ#t=22m30s>
>
> P.S. @Hahn: what's a non-blocking event loop? :-P
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>
>
> On 15/09/2012, at 20:32, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > @rektide, are you saying that joyent is asleep at the wheel because they
> are stopping the community from using threads?
> >
> > The community doesn't want threads because they violate the founding
> principle of Node, which is to use non-blocking event loops and get rid of
> threads.
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Ted Young <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I take it no one knows what he's actually complaining about?
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > On Sep 15, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Nuno Job <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> This again? Oh mah gawd. :)
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Sep 15, 2012, at 6:18 PM, rektide <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 04:56:40PM +0200, Arnout Kazemier wrote:
> >>>> "Pull request or it didn't happen"
> >>>
> >>> Hi:
> >>>
> >>> https://github.com/xk/node-threads-a-gogo , or preferrably some
> better isolated manner of
> >>> multi-threading with Transferable objects.
> >>>
> >>>> On 15 sep. 2012, at 16:45, Jorge <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HzclYKz4yQ#t=22m30s
> >>>>>
> >>>>> "I would fork nodejs. Nodejs is a great thing and I would bet the
> company on it, but I
> >>>>> would not bet the company on Joyent. I see Joyent doing some stuff
> which is amateurish,
> >>>>> maybe a little chidish, so I would fork it, and, I would then give
> that back to the community,
> >>>>> and it would be industrial strength and secure and designed to
> operate a Yahoo scale and would
> >>>>> make it available for everybody for free"
> >>>
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