Great article! But I’m still confused but I think you meant to say ‘slow down the event loop’ and not block it because this long response times can not block the event loop. Things that block the event loop are bad recursion(no termination condition) and sync operations like reading a file(this blocks for a while).
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Thank you @vectormike40 for your comment. Yes, while all application that block the event loop will have slow response time the converse is not always true and that is where the confusion is here. It is not sufficiently shown in the article where or how the event loop is blocked and I'm going to update that part of the article. Thanks once again
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Great article! But I’m still confused but I think you meant to say ‘slow down the event loop’ and not block it because this long response times can not block the event loop. Things that block the event loop are bad recursion(no termination condition) and sync operations like reading a file(this blocks for a while).
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Thank you @vectormike40 for your comment. Yes, while all application that block the event loop will have slow response time the converse is not always true and that is where the confusion is here. It is not sufficiently shown in the article where or how the event loop is blocked and I'm going to update that part of the article. Thanks once again