josdejong/workerpool

Support binary data

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#20 opened on Mar 4, 2017

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Description

Web workers can pass binary data, but this doesn't work in workerpool.

the stdio option for child processes was added a bit ago, and allows creation of the ipc channel, which can then be leveraged for sending binary data.

additionally there's the new cluster native module which automates a lot of this.

i'd love the workerpool API available on top of either one of these approaches so i can have a robust solution that works on both web and node.

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Research direction
Investigate how to leverage the 'stdio' option in child processes and the 'cluster' module to support binary data transfer, and ensure compatibility with web workers' binary data handling.
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