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Re:We 30x'd our Node parallelism by MayeulC on Friday December 13, 2019 @11:38AM (#21783063)
All right, thank you. So it's basically the same as any other non-preemptive multitasking design.

If the event loop is part of the Node language/runtime, I can see the case for making it preemptive.

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Re:We 30x'd our Node parallelism by Izkata on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:09AM (#21787941)
> So it's basically the same as any other non-preemptive multitasking design.

All this has happened before. All this will happen again.

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