On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 23:33, rektide <rekt...@voodoowarez.com> wrote: >> but has ultimately turned out to cause too much instability in node's >> internal functionality to justify continuing with it at this time. > > please specify, elaborate, explain or make note upon this conflict, as > if in warning to those who would have wished to pursue the cause > further.
Retrofitting thread safety onto a code base that wasn't designed for it leaves a very wide margin for obscure bugs. Offset against the potential benefits (which were questionable and probably not bottlenecks to most people*) the choice was not hard to make. * Mostly faster worker start-up times and faster inter-worker communication. -- 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
