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Re:We 30x'd our Node parallelism by willglynn on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:37AM (#21788017)
Not OP, but… concurrency is not the same as parallelism. This is an important hair to split:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/24684037/1026671

"Concurrency" doesn't warrant scare quotes even when describing a single threaded program.

It's true that Node.js allows one task to block many others, but that's an implementation detail of Node.js, not a guaranteed result which necessarily applies to any program using only one OS thread. Other programs suffer from analogous starvation/deadlock/livelock/priority inversion problems, but those would be implementation details too, not guaranteed results from using multiple OS threads.

Re:We 30x'd our Node parallelism by dmitriid on Saturday December 14, 2019 @10:40AM (#21790005)
I never said anything about other programs. I never said that other single-threaded programs don't suffer from the same problems. That's is sort of the point. Node.js is single-threaded and, as a result, had all the same problems a single-threaded programs has. And no amount of hand-waving can change that fact.