Your link is being weird for some reason. Here's a better url. https://github.com/hut78/troop.js
On Sunday, September 16, 2012 4:54:24 PM UTC-7, Kevin Jones wrote: > > > Just thought I would add from experience of building a threaded version of > node. The process.* problem does not really exist if you create a new v8 > context for each thread, there are some issues, particularly with > process.exit() behaviour but nothing too nasty. > > Modules are a 50:50 issue I think. If threads were supported in the core > it would be fairly easy to provide helpers to handle thread specific data, > I do that with a C++ template to most of the node globals, it's work but > certainly not hard work unless you want to do something more involved that > just maintain compatibility. On the other hand, I have just finished work > on loading a threaded version of node as a native module into a stock > version of node. This is really easy to deploy but I have not found anyway > to make this support native modules, I kind of doubt there can be any > single process solution given the current code, but I really like the model > of being able to bolt fully functioning threads on as a module for those of > us who care so I will probably look for other solutions. > > I am really only chasing the gains to be had in shared state rather than > any philosophical position, to that end I have tuned messaging passing > between threads, a rough & ready benchmark shows throughput of 500k-msg/sec > between threads, the comparative figure for inter-process is 20k-msg/sec, > although this was only tested in WIN32. My work is on > github<https://github.com/organizations/hut78>, > but I am a couple of week away from an initial release, plenty of test > cases to be run yet. > > > -- 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
