JS eventloop on worker thread

[jolcese]

I've been doing some tests with workers and I realize that several async functions (e.g. setInterval, setTimer, xhr requests, etc) are not working inside threads.
I understand that this happens because of the lack of a "true" JS eventLoop in th thread.
Is this something that can be implemented? How hard it is?

[audreyt]

It is possible by copying over Node's own uv_timer_t implementations, since we share the same event loop with the underlying JS code.

XHR requests will require porting something like https://github.com/rob333/thread.js/blob/master/src/simple_http.cc to our context.

All in all quite possible, but I'm afraid I'm a bit short on tuits (available cycles) in the next few weeks. If anyone would like to take a sketch at it, I'd be very happy to give out commit bits and/or take pull requests.

[DiThi]

I just found this problem... I need to use XHR, and the xhr2 module uses http.Agent and https.Agent.

I may work around it with a shim that makes requests to the main thread.