[nodejs] [Ann] Prototype Light-weight processes/thread support

Hi All,


I have created a prototype of LWP running over threads for node. There are
a couple of short videos of it running at

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEKyOjUJwxe6kTes3p-HYRg. The code &
pre-built Windows binary are at https://github.com/westboost/troop.js.proto.
Only Windows support is working at the moment. You should be able to run
any standard node code in each LWP without problems.


I am sure some/many will view this as unneeded, my interest is being able
to use node for medium/heavy data processing and in that area I was
concerned processes (particularly IPC) would really would become an issue,
so hence a prototype using threads to see how scary it was. LWP was just
a convenient model to present the threads. The code was designed as far as
possible to be a bolt-on to node to make it easy to track changes without
too much heartache, it's currently based on v0.8.


What I have not put much/any effort into is defining a decent interface to
the LWP model, all you can do at the moment is exec() to create new LWP.
Very much open to suggestions on what people would think is
essential/useful. Feel free to open wish list items against the prototype,
I will look at these when deciding on what changes are needed for a
production version with wider OS support to work.


Enjoy,

Kev