@aredridel it’s taking facilities the kernel exposes for parallel multi-threaded use and limiting you to a single-threaded API
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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 -
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@aredridel if any computation stalls the single-threaded event loop, the whole works gets gummed up. Real parallelism prevents that2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aredridel as soon as more than one thread is running uncontended in parallel, a.k.a. multicore2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@aredridel Node is single threaded. Anything that stalls the event loop prevents I/O processing. There is no parallelism.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@aredridel the VM uses threads, but the programming model it exposes is inherently single-threaded
6:26 AM - 13 May 2015
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