From bd2d90feff063f6727de44f623f724f811578c39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Dahl Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:36:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Change text on homepage about Web Workers --- doc/index.html | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 5819f6f78b4..c6ad3c13d61 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -194,13 +194,8 @@ server.listen(1337, "127.0.0.1"); But what about multiple-processor concurrency? Aren't threads necessary to scale programs to multi-core computers? - Processes are necessary to scale to multi-core computers, not - memory-sharing threads. The fundamentals of scalable systems are - fast networking and non-blocking design—the rest is message - passing. In future versions, Node will be able to fork new - processes (using the Web - Workers API ) which fits well into the current design. + You can start new processes via child_process.fork() + these other processes will be scheduled in parallel.