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why down vote ? fork is fine as long as the communication between the two processes is low-bandwidth.

• Touche 9y ago
  It works fine for many use cases but has serialization overhead.
• nevir 9y ago
  Shared memory & low overhead sharing of expensive objects is probably the primary reason to use Napa
  • MuffinFlavored 9y ago
    I don't think Napa features shared memory though, does it?
    • daiyip 9y ago
      Since everything is in a single process, they can be shared via native structures. Each JS thread has its own heap, there will be a cost to transfer the shared native structures into JS object. For complex objects, usually JSON is used thus marshall/unmarshall is needed. But for objects like UTF-8 string or ArrayBuffer, the same layout is used across JS and C++, thus at almost no cost. Another thing is that between addon-modules, they can pass pointer of native structures (like Buffer) using 2 uint32 through JS. In this case, JS works as a binding language.