Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
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Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#2I knew it was possible :-)
https://webkit.org/blog/7846/concurrent-javascript-it-can-wo...
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#3Is there a human-authored description of the PR anywhere?
How are there not race conditions all over the place?
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#4Is there a human-authored description of the PR anywhere? How are there not race conditions all over the place?
It's substantially based on my design, read the blog post I wrote (linked in another comment here)
It's a very complex thing, but not impossible. I'm very impressed that any LLM can do this
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#5I know a ton of people absolutely hate this level of "LLM code + LLM PR description + LLM PR review" but my boss would have an orgasm if I was able to use AI half as well in our org... :/
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#6Counting 62 em-dashes in the PR description alone, are people reading those walls of slop anymore?
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#7I will never get over the overuse of adjectives like "real" in LLM outputs, it dilutes the meaning of these words.
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#8One of the biggest things preventing software like SQL DB's from being written in TypeScript is the lack of proper threading.
I genuinely think you could write a competitively-performant multi-threaded DB in Bun + TS if you had shared-heap threads and fast atomics/locking primitives.
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#9Imagine somebody doing a drive-by on your repo and dropping a 270k loc PR expecting you to merge it. Bonus points if they can't even put in the 0.001% smidgen of effort to write why they think the PR is useful or necessary in their own words. Oh, but we don't have to imagine it, because there are people who actually do that!
Re: Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore
#10Imagine somebody doing a drive-by on your repo and dropping a 270k loc PR expecting you to merge it. Bonus points if they can't even put in the 0.001% smidgen of effort to write why they think the PR is useful or necessary in their own words. Oh, but we don't have to imagine it, because there are people who actually do that!
The PR is against bun's fork of WebKit, not upstream.