microsoft / napajs
Napa.js: a multi-threaded JavaScript runtime
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Napa.js
Napa.js is a multi-threaded JavaScript runtime built on V8, which was originally designed to develop highly iterative services with non-compromised performance in Bing. As it evolves, we find it useful to complement Node.js in CPU-bound tasks, with the capability of executing JavaScript in multiple V8 isolates and communicating between them. Napa.js is exposed as a Node.js module, while it can also be embedded in a host process without Node.js dependency.
Installation
Install the latest stable version:
npm install napajs
Other options can be found in Build Napa.js.
Quick Start
const napa = require('napajs');
const zone1 = napa.zone.create('zone1', { workers: 4 });
// Broadcast code to all 4 workers in 'zone1'.
zone1.broadcast('console.log("hello world");');
// Execute an anonymous function in any worker thread in 'zone1'.
zone1.execute(
(text) => text,
['hello napa'])
.then((result) => {
console.log(result.value);
});
More examples:
- Estimate PI in parallel
- Max sub-matrix of 1s with layered parallelism
- Parallel Quick Sort
- Recursive Fibonacci with multiple JavaScript threads
- Synchronized loading
Features
- Multi-threaded JavaScript runtime.
- Node.js compatible module architecture with NPM support.
- API for object transportation, object sharing and synchronization across JavaScript threads.
- API for pluggable logging, metric and memory allocator.
- Distributed as a Node.js module, as well as supporting embed scenarios.
Documentation
Contribute
You can contribute to Napa.js in following ways:
- Report issues and help us verify fixes as they are checked in.
- Review the source code changes.
- Contribute to core module compatibility with Node.
- Contribute bug fixes.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.<br> For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
License
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the MIT License.