Any plan to support multi-thread in io.js?

[yejingfu]

I am not sure if it's good idea to bring multi-threading into io.js. However I feel it would be beneficial to CPU-consuming computation. The JXcore is based on node.js, aiming to provide multi-thread supports.
So I am wondering if there is any official plan to have multi-thread in io.js.

[algesten]

I sincerely hope not.

[brendanashworth]

Well, it already supports multithreading with the cluster module. As far as I'm aware changing it to be multithreaded for everything would mean modifying V8 - unless V8 supports multithreading as it is.

[feross]

Spawn multiple node processes if you need this.

[YurySolovyov]

io.js name kind of suggests what it is for

[quantizor]

@brendanashworth +1, exactly what that module is meant to do

[yorkie]

multi-event-loops maybe useful to us rather than threads, because most of users of node/io knows what the event loop is, but doesn't know what a thread does act or just a bit bit acknowledge :(

[tjconcept]

Please don't.

[bnoordhuis]

I'll close this, there isn't anything directly actionable. io.js may someday add multi-isolate support (what JX does too, I think) but that won't be hugely different from what you can do today with the child_process and cluster modules; it's still going to be share-nothing with explicit message passing.

[basarat]

add multi-isolate support (what JX does too, I think)

Yes. Docs : http://jxcore.com/docs/jxcore-feature-multitasking.html The sub-instance is completely separated from the main instance and from the other sub-instances, because they all run in different V8′s contexts/isolates

[mikeal]

#1159

[yejingfu]

Glad to see the work module is now offically implemented in io.js. Thank you!