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FunWork - Make functions become non-blocking thougth workers.

Brief

CPU intensive calculations blocks event-loop while its execution.

Workers solve this problem, but require some extra plumbing.

FunWork combines workers and nextTick() (deasync) to avoid the mess of dealing with workers by simply converting a function into a "worker function".

The only restriction is that it must be a pure function because workers haven't access to the master process scope.

That is: Source functions haven't access to scope, context and cannot modify its arguments (or cause any side effect in any way).

Installation:

npm install [--save] funwork

Usage:

var funwork = require("funwork");
...
var nonBlockingFn = funwork(blockingFn);

Example:

    var funwork = require("funwork");

    // Blocking pure function
    function f0 (x){
        // Do some expensive calculation:
        for (var i = 0; i< 1000000000; i++) {
            x--;
        };
        return 2 * x * i;
    }

    var f = funwork(f0);

    setTimeout(function() {
        console.log ("Hello World!!!");
    }, 1300);

    // Function calls that will be executed in backgrond thought workers:
    console.log ("RESULT: ", f(7));
    console.log ("RESULT: ", f(22));

Contributing

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Creating and/or mantainig documentation.
Implementing new features or improving code implementation.
Reporting bugs and/or fixing it.
Sending me any other feedback.
Whatever you like...

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