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		andrewvc on Sept 28, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why node.js excites me Node is still going through a lot of changes,and their Zeromq lib is still alpha quality.

pjscott on Sept 28, 2010 [–]

Specifically, the zeromq.node library uses 100% of the CPU spinning in a busy-wait loop. There are plans to switch to a more reasonable architecture, but the author hasn't had the time to actually do it yet.

Wait a few months and I'm sure all this discussion will be horribly obsolete, of course.

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