This may be the first time in the history of the internet that Web Workers have been referred to as "elegant" :)
Keep in mind that Web Workers use message passing and, outside of some experimental code in Chrome, entirely serialize the contents of the message which is easily accomplished with the same performance using system processes in node 0.6.x. -Mikeal On Feb 3, 2012, at February 3, 20121:54 PM, geddesign wrote: > @Isaac I'm a little disappointed because this feature was going to make Node > more able to do intense CPU-bound operations without blocking everything > else, a limitation that is one of Node's biggest criticisms. The browsers > elegantly solve this problem with web workers. Is there a reason Node > couldn't use web workers or something like it to solve the issue? > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > 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 post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: 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 post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
