bobbin - npm Package Compare versions

Comparing version 0.2.1 to 0.2.2

package.json

 {
   "name": "bobbin",
-  "version": "0.2.1",
+  "version": "0.2.2",
   "description": "easily spool up thread-like worker processes",
@@ -33,2 +33,5 @@ "main": "index.js",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/bchociej/bobbin",
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=0.8.0"
+  },
   "dependencies": {
@@ -35,0 +38,0 @@ "coffee-script": "^1.8.0",

README.md

@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ # bobbin
 var bobbin = require('bobbin');
-var pool = bobbin.create(4); // 4 processes; defaults to os.cpus().length
+var pool = bobbin.create(4); // create 4 processes; defaults to os.cpus().length
 
 
-// to send some work, in this case concatenate two strings:
+// to send some work (in this case concatenate two strings `left' and `right'):
 
@@ -36,4 +36,6 @@ var left = 'foo', right = 'bar';
 
-1. calls to `pool.run()` are dispatched to workers in a round-robin fashion
+1. calls to `pool.run()` are dispatched to workers in a round-robin fashion, though idle workers are prioritized.
 2. you can't send closures to workers, so explicitly send data in the first arguments to `pool.run()`. those arguments will be passed verbatim into your work function.
 3. your local callback gets called with whatever your work function calls back with.
+4. to `create()` a pool, you have to be the `cluster` master, i.e. `cluster.isMaster`
+

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Number of package files

11

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40

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