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WORKER THREADS IN NODE.JS: A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR MULTITHREADING IN JAVASCRIPT

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Worker Threads allow you to spawn multiple threads of execution within a single process, with each worker running in its own isolated V8 environment to execute heavy JavaScript code without blocking the main event loop. They are ideal for CPU-intensive tasks like image processing, data parsing, complex mathematical computations, and machine learning inference.