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Worker threads[0]. If you don't follow Javascript it's not surprising you hadn't heard about it, it's pretty new. Node also, thanks to v8, pretty much outperfor
by mftb 4y ago
Worker threads[0]. If you don't follow Javascript it's not surprising you hadn't heard about it, it's pretty new. Node also, thanks to v8, pretty much outperforms Python.
[0]https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
- frazbin 4y agoworker threads don't share the parent's heap though, right? They can only share state through a binary channel. It's something, but pretty different from traditional pthreads.
- mftb 4y agoThey can use SharedArrayBuffers[0] which wrap shared memory or they can pass ArrayBuffers. Node may not have the shared arrays yet, but the browsers do. [0]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
- ptx 4y agoPython has multiprocessing.shared_memory[1] since 3.8 to share arrays between processes, which accomplishes the same thing and circumvents the GIL issue. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_mem...