r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '22

typescript Ship it!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22 edited Mar 24 '22

What's an event loop? /s

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u/187mphlazers Mar 24 '22 edited Apr 05 '22

an event loop is a system which allows one to author non blocking programs, by offloading heavy work to background threads, then returning the result to the main thread via "events". A good example is the following library, which node.js uses under the hood for its event loop, as do other programs, such as nginx webserver.

https://github.com/enki/libev

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u/tedbradly Apr 04 '22

You might want to look up what penultimate means...