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by bheadmaster 871 days ago
Pros: Vertical scalability.

Cons: All your async code becomes full of data races.

I suppose adding multithreading to the Node ecosystem would be as hard (if not harder) than removing GIL from Python. At least Python has locking primitives. Node, as far as I know, has none.

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> Node, as far as I know, has none.

Atomics are probably the closest. https://v8.dev/features/atomics