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From: Vivek Anand Sharma <sharma_vivek62@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:00:10 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] worker thread (#36680)

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+---
+title: Worker Threads
+---
+
+## Worker Threads
+
+[Worker Threads](https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html) is a Node.js default library made to enable the use of threads that execute JavaScript in parallel. They are useful for performing CPU-intensive JavaScript operations. They will not help much with I/O-intensive work. Node.js's built-in asynchronous I/O operations are more efficient than Workers can be. They became available in Node.js 10.5.0. Prior to Node.js 11.7.0.
+
+### Get Started 
+
+#### Requiring Worker Threads
+
+
+```js
+
+const worker = require('worker_threads');
+
+```
+
+#### Worker Main Thread
+
+
+```js
+
+const { Worker, isMainThread } = require('worker_threads');
+
+if (isMainThread) {
+  // This re-loads the current file inside a Worker instance.
+  new Worker(__filename);
+} else {
+  console.log('Inside Worker!');
+  console.log(isMainThread);  // Prints 'false'.
+}
+
+```
+
+#### Worker Thread Prime Number Example
+
+
+```js
+
+const { Worker, isMainThread, parentPort, workerData } = require('worker_threads');
+const min = 2;
+let primes = [];
+function generatePrimes(start, range) {
+  let isPrime = true;
+  let end = start + range;
+  for (let i = start; i < end; i++) {
+    for (let j = min; j < Math.sqrt(end); j++) {
+      if (i !== j && i%j === 0) {
+        isPrime = false;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    if (isPrime) {
+      primes.push(i);
+    }
+    isPrime = true;
+  }
+}
+if (isMainThread) {
+  const max = 1e7;
+  const threadCount = +process.argv[2] || 2;
+  const threads = new Set();;
+  console.log(`Running with ${threadCount} threads...`);
+  const range = Math.ceil((max - min) / threadCount);
+  let start = min;
+  for (let i = 0; i < threadCount - 1; i++) {
+    const myStart = start;
+    threads.add(new Worker(__filename, { workerData: { start: myStart, range }}));
+    start += range;
+  }
+  threads.add(new Worker(__filename, { workerData: { start, range: range + ((max - min + 1) % threadCount)}}));
+  for (let worker of threads) {
+    worker.on('error', (err) => { throw err; });
+    worker.on('exit', () => {
+      threads.delete(worker);
+      console.log(`Thread exiting, ${threads.size} running...`);
+      if (threads.size === 0) {
+        console.log(primes.join('\n'));
+      }
+    })
+    worker.on('message', (msg) => {
+      primes = primes.concat(msg);
+    });
+  }
+} else {
+  generatePrimes(workerData.start, workerData.range);
+  parentPort.postMessage(primes);
+}
+
+```
+
+#### Why and When use Worker Thread
+
+- When you want to do multi threading operations in Node.js.
+- When you want to activate a thread in thread pool for processing.
+
+#### More information 
+
+- [Official NodeJS site for Worker Thread](https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html)
+- [npm package for Worker Thread](https://www.npmjs.com/package/worker-thread)