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Re:Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:48AM (#15499093)
Not really, multithreaded applications are not more memory-efficient.
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Re:Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime by daiyip on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:59AM (#15505980)
Yes in common sense.

But for node cluster's case, if we need to load a data set for a worker to serve request, it has to be loaded on each process. While the multi-threaded model will have only one copy.

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