
Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures
Oxide and Friends
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Async Away
The big challenge that we face as a large node JS code based on trellor is with async away. We get a certain number of outstandingync operations and each of them can only get a small slice of the event loop at a time. I think this is a one of the big motivating factors for, for Facebook to fork away from PHP beyond the main performance reasons. This actually unlocks quite a few performance benefits for them.
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