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Re: Node OS

#51

Post by bitwize » Thu, May 05, 2016, 3:49 AM UTC

wrong_variable wrote: post #13

> As much as I love Node.js, I have grown to dislike npm. Git + Github is a much nicer way to publish. Also the whole left-pad fiasco.

To be quite frank, the fact that the node community hasn't adopted vendoring as a standard practice speaks volumes about that community.

Re: Node OS

#52

Post by itsyogesh » Thu, May 05, 2016, 10:49 AM UTC

shruubi wrote: post #5

One thing I can't seem to find is, is this a true nodejs-based operating system in that it's all single threaded? single-threaded event loop stuff works well for network servers but an OS? To me it seems like a terrible idea.

I recently read about the SIMD support for Javascript. While parallelism and distributed systems contribute a lot to the OS, SIMD is something nice to have on top that. So, JS may be single threaded but having SIMD support might speed things up.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Re: Node OS

#53

Post by itsyogesh » Thu, May 05, 2016, 10:49 AM UTC

shruubi wrote: post #5

One thing I can't seem to find is, is this a true nodejs-based operating system in that it's all single threaded? single-threaded event loop stuff works well for network servers but an OS? To me it seems like a terrible idea.

I recently read about the SIMD support for Javascript. While parallelism and distributed systems contribute a lot to the OS, SIMD is something nice to have on top that. So, JS may be single threaded but having SIMD support might speed things up.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...