Description

Tiny library to execute code on multi threads. Result of each thread is resturned as a promise. Processor can use any promise library (see Promise chapter).

Installation

• Download the latest release.
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/jccazeaux/processor.git.
• Install with npm: npm install promised-processor.

Quick start

Create a new thread

var t = processor.thread(function(a, b) {
	return a + b;
});

Execute thread

thread function returns an object containing a function exec. This function will execute the thread. All exec arguments will be sent to thread function.

t.exec(1, 2);

Get result

exec function returns result of thread function as a promise.

t.exec(1, 2)
.then(function(res) {
	console.log(res); // 3
});

Handle errors

Errors are handled by promise

processor.thread(function() {
	throw new Error("I failed");
})
.exec()
.catch(function(message) {
	console.log(message); // I failed
});

Configuration

Number of concurrent threads

By default processor will have a pool of two threads. You can configure this number with config.nbThreads function

processor.config.nbThreads(4);

Keep in mind it may be useless to configure more threads than the number of cores.

Promises

processor can adapt to these promises library

• Ecmascript 2016 (default)
• Q
• Bluebird

You may define use any promise library. You just need to define an adapter. This adapter creates a function that creates the promises and takes resolve and rejects as parameters.

As an exemple, here is default adapter

function() {
	var res;
	if (window.Promise) {
		res = function(resolve, reject) {
			return new window.Promise(resolve, reject);
		};
	} else if (window.Q) {
		res = function(resolve, reject) {
			return Q.Promise(resolve, reject);
		};
	} else {
		throw "No recognized promise library nor ES6 Promise. Try to customize with processor.promiseAdapter";
	}
	return res;
}

To define a new one

processor.config.promiseAdapter(function() {
	return function(resolve, reject) {
		// Code your adapter here
	};
});