Timeline for Node.js async forEach: thread-safe?
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| Dec 19, 2014 at 12:46 | vote | accept | k88074 | ||
| Dec 18, 2014 at 21:26 | answer | added | Peter Lyons | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 21:24 | comment | added | six fingered man | asynchronous operations are event driven, meaning they'll happen sometime in the future when the event occurs. If the main thread is occupied when the event takes place, the event handler waits for it to be freed. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 21:16 | comment | added | k88074 | That's what I also know. This is why I said that the question may be trivial. However, stuff which gets run async still makes me a bit confused.. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 21:12 | comment | added | Siler | I thought everything in node.js was thread-safe - it's a single threaded, event-driven paradigm, no? | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 21:11 | history | asked | k88074 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |