Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge

Re:Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Int... by hajile on Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:55PM (#18145400)

My understanding is that libuv creates a threadpool that it uses for IO operations and these inform the main thread when an IO event is ready. Is there something wrong with my understanding?

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Re:Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Int... by spiralx on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:52AM (#18167978)

You're both right, although you more than the other guy being a dick. libuv uses a thread pool for asynchronous I/O for everything but network requests, which are handled on the main thread - presumably because they're already asynchronous by nature.

http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/design.html

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Re:Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Int... by frutiger on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:58AM (#18153611)

Yes there is something wrong with your understanding.

I recommend reading epoll(1) or kqueue(1).

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