On: Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript

[z3t4]

What's with the Node JS architecture that makes it not suitable for compute-heavy tasks?

I'm developing an MMO server in Node JS. So this is welcome in for example Vector calculations.

The reason I choose JS is that I can write "dumbed down" code, that just anyone with JS experience can manage.

Hopefully, JS will be just as fast as optimized C++ in the near future ... First you will ignore it, then laughs at it ...

[10098 → z3t4]

It's single threaded. Any compute-heavy task will block that single thread until it's over.

[z3t4 → 10098]

In Node JS you can spawn child processes. It's also designed to be asynchronous. But what I like about JS is that it doesn't force me into paradigms.

And when you run something heavy in Node JS the VM can use many threads. So I think it's weird to say it's single threaded. Aren't all programming languages single threaded then?