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Re:Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux by dirtydroog on Sunday March 01, 2020 @04:02PM (#22459296)
As far as I'm aware, node.js is a wrapper over libuv which is a truly asynchronous socket IO library. It fakes file IO async ops with thread pools because on Linux file IO isn't async at all.
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