Thread Pools

• Introduction
• Overview

Introduction

Provision is provided for multi-threading in Dynamo using webworker-threads. This allows creation of asynchronous functions that run outside of the singular thread running the event loop and other node.js functions. It enables the creation of non-blocking CPU-bound I/O operations.

Overview

The threadpool object is exposed on the Infrastructure object and can be accessed using

this.entityRepo.infrastructure().threadPool;

Calling the run method of this object and passing the context, function to execute, and a callback function. The definition for this function is given as -

this.entityRepo.infrastructure().threadPool.run = function (

context,

fn,

callback

) {};