Ravi, I don't think it's misleading to say that something blocks a thread or blocks a generator or blocks a function. To me, all blocking means is that the logic can't continue till the thing has finished. A non-blocking function will return immediately and let you run other code while waiting for the result.
So to me, a yield in a generator that suspends the generator till some non-blocking operation is complete is "blocking" in the context of the generator function, but not blocking for the entire process. The single threaded node server can still handle and process other requests. Though I could see how saying "this yield blocks on the non-blocking function" would confuse someone. On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:50 PM, // ravi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 19, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to bring some experience and history to this conversation. > > > > Great post Tim, thank you for giving us a glimpse of the past. > > Re: your closing comment, I too was going to suggest use of > blocking/non-blocking earlier in this thread (and in fact, I sort of > adopted such a usage, myself, in my earlier comment), but on second > thought, I think it is equally misleading (at least to me). Whether a call > is blocking or non-blocking often depends on how it is used (such as I/O > system calls which leave it to the caller to decide whether to block or > not). Of course I realise we are speaking of node module calls not system > calls. > > Regards, > > —ravi > > -- > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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/d/optout.
