I know that Node uses V8 as its Javascript engine, and it is the only thing 
about Node.
So what I was asking was
- What becomes easier if I use Node (including V8, of course) instead of 
only native V8? What features of Node.js makes it easier to do 
multithreading?

Thank you.

On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 9:00:56 PM UTC-5, Michael Zhou wrote:
>
> Node, at its core, uses V8 as its JavaScript engine. What do you mean by 
> "native V8"?
>
> On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 7:07:35 PM UTC-5, Tiny Wings wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much for your answer.
>> Could you let me know what those showstoppers are?
>> And I don't have any experience with Node and I'm not intending to build 
>> a web server either. Is Node easier to use than native V8 for 
>> parallelization?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 1:31:55 PM UTC-5, 
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> I, too, looked at adding OpenMP to v8 but there are several showstoppers 
>>> to adding parallelism *inside* v8.  My solution was to add shared, 
>>> persistent objects as a native addon, and fork multiple instances of Node 
>>> for concurrency.
>>>
>>> The native addon prevents this from being used in browsers, but this 
>>> approach works embedded in systems with POSIX-like shared memory: EMS.js 
>>> home page <http://syntheticsemantics.com/EMS.js/>, GitHub 
>>> <https://github.com/SyntheticSemantics/ems>
>>>
>>>           -J
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 11:34:38 PM UTC-8, Tiny Wings wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About my question:
>>>> This is actually not really much about parallelization; this is rather 
>>>> about how to do launch multiple threads in multiple cores within a 
>>>> javascript program and make them communicate when needed.
>>>>
>>>

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