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Are the threads started by way of external process, thread started within a C library, or started with an actual Node.js call i can write directly in node.js co

• chmod775 9y ago
  If I'm going to assume that by "node.js" code, you actually mean JavaScript code running within the V8 engine as a part of the whole that is Node.JS, then: The answer is no, you cannot do that using pure JS and without using (external) stuff like WebWorkers. If you are talking more generally about anything we can run within Node.JS, is using Node.JS user-facing APIs and works without doing any modifications to Node.JS, the answer is yes. You can easily achieve that with node's native module support, and I would encourage you to do so over committing the folly of doing anything CPU intensive in JS. That is if you manage to find any CPU intensive task that isn't already handled by node built-ins or some library out there. Edit: Now you may say: "Ahah! You can't use threads using [limited usage of node]. Also threads must be usable for arbitrary workloads in order to consider a thing multi-threaded. Node.js is single-threaded!" I just can't argue with that. It's just a matter of opinions now about what makes a thing/environment single-threaded, and what makes it multi-threaded. To me it's simple: [x] Thing uses multiple threads to perform work.