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by meowtimemania 871 days ago
In what cases would you want multi-threading in javascript?

I feel like most performance intensive nodejs modules drop down to c++ where real concurrency already exists. (e.g. sharp - https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/api-utility#concurrency)

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> In what cases would you want multi-threading in javascript?

In all of them - JavaScript is mostly used for asynchronous programs, which are easily parallelizable. There's no reason not to want multi-threading.