There is a notable difference between thread va child process. Threads are much light weight. Child processes take more time to initalize and take more mem.(~15 mb min in node)
On Wednesday, January 29, 2014, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote: > > 27.01.2014, 14:29, "Damian Kaczmarek" <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > >: > > Hi, > I seem to have totally lived in the dark about the existence of the VM > module. > I have two questions that I hope a kind knowledgeable soul could answer > and I could not find the answers in the docs. > > 1) Does the VM module run contexts in separate threads? If not, could it > in the future? > 2) If answer was yes to the previous question, or will be in the future - > could the cluster module be reworked to use separate contexts instead of > processes? > > > > 1. No. No. > 2. No. > > If you want just to scatter vm instances over multiple child processes, > any good node.js developer can came up with such solution in an hour. There > are "sandbox" and a few other modules already doing it (I saw at least one > webworkers implementation based on this). > > As for threads...Why do you want to use threads instead of child > processes? I don't believe it has any performance benefit, and sharing > states between different v8 instances is impossible anyway (read as "nobody > would do that"). > > > -- > -- > 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]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%[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] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > 'nodejs%[email protected]');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Arunoda Susiripala @arunoda <http://twitter.com/arunoda> <http://gplus.to/arunoda>https://github.com/arunoda http://www.linkedin.com/in/arunoda -- -- 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.
