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doc: note JavaScript is not single threaded (#6848)
Honestly I appreciate the effort and don't have time to go over the whole thing but there are plenty of inaccuracies in this document. This PR fixes the first one I noticed - JavaScript as a language is _not_ single threaded. Nor has it ever been, and multithreaded JavaScript execution dates back at least 10-20 years Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Claudio W <[email protected]>
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## What is the Event Loop?
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The event loop is what allows Node.js to perform non-blocking I/O
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operations — despite the fact that JavaScript is single-threaded — by
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operations — despite the fact that a single JavaScript thread is used by default — by
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offloading operations to the system kernel whenever possible.
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Since most modern kernels are multi-threaded, they can handle multiple

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