Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Programming (opens in new tab)

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5 pointswalter125y ago3 comments

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Javascript is single threaded. Async is not parallelism. As far as I know, the only way to run javascript in parallel is to use child_process.fork() or cluster on node.js, server-side. I do not know of any browsers which implement such.

e98cuenc5y ago

In browsers you can use webworkers to get parallel execution.

jacobwilliamroy5y ago

Cool. The author makes no mention of that.

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