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Re:Piscina – The Node.js Worker Pool by nobleach on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#26559994)
JavaScript is single threaded, Node is most certainly not.
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Re:Piscina – The Node.js Worker Pool by gbrits on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:20PM (#26561073)
Yes it surely is
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Re:Piscina – The Node.js Worker Pool by zbentley on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:50PM (#26561349)
My "htop" display surely disagrees. So do my node programs that lag out waiting for disk IO thread pool slots. Sounds does node's documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
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Re:Piscina – The Node.js Worker Pool by hmcdona1 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:50PM (#26561352)
It's not exactly. Certain operations like I/O are threaded in Node. libuv has it's own threadpool that it uses for a lot of these types of tasks.
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