Ok, I didn't notice this API available since v8 3.25. 

I will have to wait for my team to migrate to a new version of v8 then ... 

Thanks 
Julien.
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:44:27 AM UTC+2, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:38 AM, juu <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
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>> Hello everyone, 
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>> 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. 
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>> 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.
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>>  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.  
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>> 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.
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>> 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);
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>> /** Stop preemption.*/
>>   static void StopPreemption();
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>> 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
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>> So here are my questions :  
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>> 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...
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> I guess you can do this by using the RequestInterrupt API?
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> best
> -jochen
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>> Am I doing something wrong in my global use of v8 and multiple threads ?  
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>> Thanks a lot !
>> Julien.
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