@aredridel @tqbf it’s an important distinction, IMO. @skeuomorf thought so too at least 
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@aredridel@tqbf as@skeuomorf pointed out,@rob_pike has an entire talk dedicated to the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso …2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aredridel curious where Gulp keeps its thread pool… all I found was this: https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/issues/317 …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aredridel Node’s use of threads is limited to exposing blocking system calls to single-threaded asynchronous upside-down world1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aredridel it’s taking facilities the kernel exposes for parallel multi-threaded use and limiting you to a single-threaded API1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@aredridel tl;dr: Node programs are single-threaded even if some facilities use a thread pool2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@aredridel FWIW, I’ve endeavored to build systems that support async I/O in multithreaded environments: https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid-io …
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