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by exabrial 4218 days ago
If Node forks, does this mean one of the projects will block?
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andypants 4218 days ago
No, node.js is event-driven and non-blocking.
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emergentcypher 4218 days ago
But there is only a single thread, so io.js will probably hog all the time and effectively block everybody else.
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calebm 4218 days ago
As it was forked by some of the top Node contributors, I'm guessing yes.
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