Thanks for pointing that out. I was not aware libuv provides facilities for running code in separate threads, since I haven't seen it actually used in any of th

Thanks for pointing that out. I was not aware libuv provides facilities for running code in separate threads, since I haven't seen it actually used in any of the of native addons I've looked at yet. It's too bad that node-sqlite doesn't use it. I retract my comment about "no matter what", but it still just boils down to running sqlite on a separate thread. In my opinion it's probably a lot easier to run sqlite in a separate thread (or process) yourself at the app-level. The code for writing async native bindings in node is very complicated (not even considering the thread pool), and you probably don't need every single operation to be async. That just adds a lot of overhead, when you probably just need a higher-level layer that says "execute these queries on the sqlite process and give me the results".