So if an app is doing lot of crypto, would you advice using child processes/fibers/webworkers for running crypto functionality?
On Saturday, August 30, 2014 4:29:28 PM UTC-7, mscdex wrote: > > On Friday, August 29, 2014 8:02:25 PM UTC-4, Sanjeev Koranga wrote: >> >> When I use the node crypto module, does it block the event loop while >> processing or spawn a different thread in C++? >> > > Currently there are no non-blocking counterparts to the existing functions > in the built-in crypto module for node, except for > `randomBytes()`/`pseudoRandomBytes()` which run in a separate thread if a > callback is passed to those functions. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/0980ed05-2d1b-4430-bfbd-e5e011c48410%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
