@aredridel Node’s use of threads is limited to exposing blocking system calls to single-threaded asynchronous upside-down world
@aredridel Node is single threaded. Anything that stalls the event loop prevents I/O processing. There is no parallelism.
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@aredridel there are ways to do do parallel processing in JavaScript, e.g. SIMD.js: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/introducing-simd-js/ … - 1 more reply
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@bascule and node is not, strictly speaking single threaded. That's the nuance I'm talking about. -
@aredridel the VM uses threads, but the programming model it exposes is inherently single-threaded
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@bascule Unless nothing stalls the event loop!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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