I would be interested in how people are currently using shared memory for IPC in node. Any success stories?
Ted Young radicalDESIGNS On Feb 3, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Marco Rogers wrote: > +1 > > The only thing I disagree with is taking the frustration offline. People > should be able to express themselves here. They should share their use cases > that they feel are being hampered, and the response should be posted here as > well so that everyone can benefit. > > :Marco > > > On Friday, February 3, 2012 1:28:54 PM UTC-8, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > The Isolates feature was intended to make it possible to run > child_process.fork() in a thread, rather than a full process. The > justification was to make it cheaper to spin up new child node > instances, as well as allowing for fast message-passing using shared > memory in binary addons, while retaining the semantics of node's > child_process implementation by keeping them in completely isolated v8 > instances. > It was a very informative experiment, but has ultimately turned out to > cause too much instability in node's internal functionality to justify > continuing with it at this time. It requires a lot of complexity to > be added to libuv and node, and isn't likely to yield enough gains to > be worth the investment. > > We're going to roll back the changes in master that were added to > support Isolates, and instead focus on Domains and other things that > promise to increase stability and make debugging easier. This change > will land in 0.7.3. It's entirely possible that we may decide to use > v8 isolates in some future version of node, but they will not be in > 0.8. > > If you were eagerly looking forward to using this feature, and find > yourself shocked or frustrated by this decision, please contact me > directly. It's not our intention to leave anyone stuck, and I do > understand that this feature was promised for some time. If this > causes hardship for you, let's figure out another way to get your use > cases handled. > > It's never easy to back-pedal, but doing experimental things means > sometimes finding out that you were headed in the wrong direction. > The sooner we make this change, the easier it will be. > > Thanks. > > > > > > > -- > 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
