node.js on multi-core machines
- by zaharpopov
node.js looks interesting BUT...
I must miss something - isn't node.js tuned only to run on a single process & thread? Then how does it scale for multi-core CPUs and multi-CPU servers? After all, it is all great to make fast as possible single-thread server, but for high loads I would want to use several CPUs. And the same goes for making applications faster - seems today the way is use multiple CPUs and parallelize the tasks.
How does node.js fit into this picture? Is its idea to somehow distribute multiple instances or what?