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Re:Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript by 10098 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @08:28PM (#7881213)
It's single threaded. Any compute-heavy task will block that single thread until it's over.
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Re:Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript by z3t4 on Sunday June 15, 2014 @01:03PM (#7895662)
In Node JS you can spawn child processes. It's also designed to be asynchronous. But what I like about JS is that it doesn't force me into paradigms.

And when you run something heavy in Node JS the VM can use many threads. So I think it's weird to say it's single threaded. Aren't all programming languages single threaded then?

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