On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> >>> this should only happen if you are doing too much sync processing. >>> >> Everything is async (i.e. any call that may take a non-predictable amount >> of time is an async call). >> >> > I don't understand what you mean here. An async function in node is a > non-blocking function. This means that is must return quickly and provide > it's response later in a callback. Both blocking functions and > non-blocking functions can take a non-predictable amount of time to do > their work. Especially if I/O in involved. The difference is that > non-blocking functions don't block the event loop and return *before* > during their work (usually I/O wait in node) > > Sorry for not being clear. I'm just trying to say that we use async calls for anything that does I/O; everything else is simple bookkeeping and shouldn't take any (significant) time. /Martin > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
