On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, at 7:34 PM, Serendipity Seraph wrote: > javascript and embedded V8 engine? Particularly something node-ish with > easy of protocol handling, event handling, async event loop at its core
Caution #1: We need floating point numbers. Javascript freely converting between numbers and strings can produce some very strange-looking floating-point bugs. Caution #2: Node's own author discovered its design to be a mistake. He wrote it up, posted it; his post was taken down as "too controversial". (The hubris and arrogance which builds up around some projects is *horrible!*) I'm sorry I don't remember details, but part of it was something like, "there's no such thing as non-blocking; using the CPU takes time." Node's design arose out of a desire to imitate some dangerous hacks a very smart programmer made very carefully to stretch the limits of 90s web servers. Node was not designed with the same level of skill. _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
