Matt, A quick read through the basics of libuv (http://nikhilm.github.com/uvbook/basics.html) has been really helpful to me. While it's not required, muscling through building a native addon for Node has been enlightening, too.
-Schoon On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > Although nextTick() now happens at the end of the event loop I believe ;-) > > But yeah, once you start thinking about how these things are implemented, it > becomes easier to understand why Node does what it does. > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Jorge Chamorro <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On 15/02/2013, at 15:15, Matt wrote: >> >> > I had a number of questions at work this week about how node works on a >> > low level, so decided to create a blog post about the basics of how event >> > loops work. >> > >> > I'm hoping this might help other people get more of an understanding of >> > how Node works internally. It's not an entirely accurate reflection of the >> > node internals, more of a general overview of how event loops work from a >> > basic implementation standpoint. >> > >> > http://baudehlo.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/how-an-event-loop-works/ >> > >> > Would love to get feedback on the post. >> >> The process.nextTick(ƒ) queue, more or less... :-) >> >> while (someThingToDo) { >> >> var n= nextTickQueue.length; >> while (n--) nextTickQueue.shift()(); >> >> var next_timeout = _run_timers(); >> >> if (nextTickQueue.length) continue; >> ms_sleep(next_timeout); >> } >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
