On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Marcel Laverdet <mar...@laverdet.com> wrote:
> ...If most of your work will take place outside the VM (through native C++ > extensions) then perhaps running JS with no parallelism will be ok, because > you can make your API calls asynchronous and parallel.. but the actual JS > will be 1 thread. > To expand a bit on that: it is impossible to write thread-safe code in pure JS because JS lacks the data types/operations needed, like mutexes. As i understand it, the next version of JS will have a "yield" keywork (or function?) which can be used to help implement non-preemptive threading, but JS will never be a full-thread-feature language. That said, i wrote a variant of setTimeout() which runs its code in another thread, and that might be of interest to you: http://code.google.com/p/v8-juice/wiki/ThreadingInJS -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ -- v8-users mailing list v8-users@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
