I would recommend https://developers.google.com/v8/embed as good reading material to understand what v8 does and does not do.
On Monday, 11 February 2013 15:47:51 UTC+1, Bodo Kaiser wrote: > > Hello, > > last weekend I asked how nodejs event loop worked and I became a great > link about it: http://nikhilm.github.com/uvbook/basics.html#event-loops > > Unfortunately I still got a major understanding problem about nodejs: > When we use some node modules which itself look like plain javascript then > in the background libuv has to handle them somehow (e.g. tcp sockets) but > how could I imagine this? > Does the javascript get parsed by v8 which detects defined classes and > informs libuv to do the tasks the overlaying tcp sockets are configured for? > And what is about some "normal" javascript-language callbacks (e.g. > setTimeout). Are they also handled by v8 or libuv? > > > I think I do not understand what the v8 engine does exactly and how the > other libs are bound into. Could somebody clarify me? > > Regards, > Bodo > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
