use child_process if you understand it. it will give you nice async.
if not use ffi but will lock the main node process.


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Andy Zelinski <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am hoping for someone to point me in the right direction (examples,
> info) on how best to handle the need for some processor heavy computations
> that might best be executed with C++ math libraries.
>
> example scenario pseudocode:
>
> 1. application user clicks "give me 10 movies to watch" button after
> entering age, iq, time of day,  and how much time he/she has to watch.
> (some post data needed as calculation parameters)
> 2. application pulls some historical data from database: an array of
> [person id, age, iq, movie watched, time watched, movie length, rating user
> gave] -- say a million data points in an array
> 3. application then needs to apply a sophisticated math model to all data
> points and includes other hard-coded parameters.
> 4. assume after watching one movie, all the hard-coded parameters change
> as a side effect, so the algorithm should rank all movies in likelihood
> loved from 1 to n, choose the top ranked movie for user, and then iterate
> for the next 9, re-applying the math model
>
> is this best handled by forking a child_process? use node-ffi? wrap a c++
> object that can handle the math and pass the parameters?
>
> thanks a million
>
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