# xk/node-threads-a-gogo

TAGG :: threads_a_gogo :: Simple and fast JavaScript threads for Node.js

Repository: https://github.com/xk/node-threads-a-gogo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/node-threads-a-gogo
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2017-01-05T22:36:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5398, "days_push": 3527, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1400, forks 141 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:37.129532+00:00)

## What it is
TAGG (threads_a_gogo) is a native Node.js module providing an asynchronous, evented API for running CPU-bound JavaScript tasks on background threads that use all available CPU cores. It predates Node's built-in worker_threads and only supports Node v0.5.1 through v6.9.2.

## Use cases
- run CPU-heavy computations off the Node event loop
- parallelize blocking JavaScript tasks across CPU cores
- keep a Node server responsive during long computations
- execute fib-like benchmarks in background threads
- use a thread pool from a single Node process

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy Node.js project pinned to Node <= 6 that needs JS threads
- studying pre-worker_threads concurrency approaches in Node

## When to avoid
- running modern Node.js (use built-in worker_threads instead)
- any project on Node 7 or later, since the module is unmaintained since 2017
- I/O-bound workloads, which Node's async model already handles

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: concurrency
- domain: developer-tools, performance
- platform: windows
- tags: threads, cpu-bound-tasks, native-module, worker-threads, parallelism, nodejs, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- xk/node-threads-a-gogo (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:37.129532+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:08.042007+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/xk/node-threads-a-gogo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:37.129532+00:00, sha 6904a9171644)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.