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## What is the Event Loop?

The event loop is what allows Node.js to perform non-blocking I/O
operations — despite the fact that JavaScript is single-threaded — by
operations — despite the fact that a single JavaScript thread is used by default — by
offloading operations to the system kernel whenever possible.

Since most modern kernels are multi-threaded, they can handle multiple
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