Re:“Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the soft...
by lmm on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:18AM
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> 2) All I/O (if you're doing it right) is asynchronous.
Not true. Synchronous I/O is higher-throughput. If you need to do a large amount of high-latency I/O (e.g. web requests) then asynchronous can end up being lower-overhead overall, but making everything async is just as bad as making everything sync.
Not true. Synchronous I/O is higher-throughput. If you need to do a large amount of high-latency I/O (e.g. web requests) then asynchronous can end up being lower-overhead overall, but making everything async is just as bad as making everything sync.