A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives

Re:A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives by slavik81 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:16PM (#11640441)

Forking and threading are different things. Forking creates new processes and duplicates memory. It raises entirely different issues from multi-threading, which does neither. See: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2483041/331041

They discussed forking, but did not discuss multi-threading.

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Re:A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives by brazzledazzle on Saturday May 07, 2016 @03:46AM (#11648764)

So for OpenSSL's RNG vs. the operating system's CSPRNG is there a difference between forking and multi-threading?

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Re:A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives by slavik81 on Saturday May 07, 2016 @06:53PM (#11651724)

Yes. The problem with an in-process RNG and forking is that the RNG state is duplicated, so both processes get the same sequence of numbers. Multithreading just needs locking to prevent corruption because the state is shared.

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Re:A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives by brazzledazzle on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:19AM (#11652743)

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

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