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26 | 26 | serves as a cross-platform abstraction library, giving easy, POSIX-like |
27 | 27 | access across all major operating systems to many common system tasks, such |
28 | 28 | as interacting with the filesystem, sockets, timers, and system events. libuv |
29 | | - also provides a pthreads-like threading abstraction that may be used to |
30 | | - power more sophisticated asynchronous addons that need to move beyond the |
| 29 | + also provides a threading abstraction similar to POSIX threads for |
| 30 | + more sophisticated asynchronous addons that need to move beyond the |
31 | 31 | standard event loop. Addon authors are encouraged to think about how to |
32 | 32 | avoid blocking the event loop with I/O or other time-intensive tasks by |
33 | 33 | off-loading work via libuv to non-blocking system operations, worker threads |
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