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Discussion on: Is Node.js really single-threaded?

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Ranieri Althoff

Asynchronous execution does not mean parallel execution. Node runs asynchronous tasks concurrently.

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Santhosh Reddy • Edited

True to some extent(per each worker). But, offloading multiple tasks to libuv thread pool essentially make it parallel.