How JavaScript Works

A brief introduction to how JavaScript works internally.

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1. How JavaScript Works @arunoda
2. Is It Fast?
3. For Server Side Apps, Really?
4. JavaScript VMs
5. V8
 Spider Monkey
 Chakra Nitro
6. V8 - The King
7. For Chrome by Google Used in Node.js, MongoDB Cool Features
8. JavaScript Execution
10. JavaScript is Single Threaded
11. huh!
12. Eventloop
13. Eventloop
14. Eventloop
15. Non Blocking I/O
16. Non Blocking IO OS Level I/O Queues
17. Java - nio Python - asyncio Non Blocking I/O isn’t Something New
18. This is the only way! But in JS
21. Node.js
22. Is Node.js Fast?
23. Pure JavaScript is Super Fast
24. Non Blocking IO is fast, efficient
25. JS - C++ communication is slow here
26. Don’t block Eventloop avoid CPU intensive tasks
27. Still, Why Node.js?
28. CPU Intensive Kernel Level Stuff
29. Highly Concurrent Easy to write
30. Thank You! @arunoda