On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:38 AM, juu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to implement RequireJS on my JS Engine based on v8 (v8 3.21). I
> have a problem with asynchronous loading and evaluation of scripts.
>
> The main thread initialize v8 : create its isolate, context, script etc ..
> When the main script is ready, the current isolate is locked and the
> script is run.
>
> Once a " *require(anotherScript)* " is encoutered (in my main script),
> another thread is created and is in charge of loading *anotherScript *and
> execute it as soon as possible.
>
> My problem is that the main thread lock the current isolate until the
> whole main script is executed. Which let no chance to *anotherScript *to
> be called asynchronously ; actually it's always executed synchronously
> since *anotherScript *manage to Lock the current isolate only once the
> main thread is finished and unlock the current isolate.
>
> I use v8::Locker and v8::Locker to deal with my "multithreaded" use of v8.
> In my version of v8 : 3.21, v8::Locker provide a preemption feature which
> enable me to give some chance to other threads to lock v8 periodically :
>
> /**Start preemption.When preemption is started, a timer is fired every n
> milliseconds that will switch between multiple threads that are in
> contention for the V8 lock. */
>   static void StartPreemption(int every_n_ms);
>
> /** Stop preemption.*/
>   static void StopPreemption();
>
> But ...this feature is no longer available in the next versions of v8
> (since 3.23) .
> This post confirm it :
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/v8-users/StartPreemption/v8-users/E5jtPC-scp8/H-2yz4Wj_SkJ
>
> So here are my questions :
>
> Is there any other way to perform the Preemption v8 used to provide ?
> Am I supposed to do it myself ? I dont think I can, I guess can't
> interrupt/pause myself the execution properly...
>

I guess you can do this by using the RequestInterrupt API?

best
-jochen



> Am I doing something wrong in my global use of v8 and multiple threads ?
>
> Thanks a lot !
> Julien.
>
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