Yea, he means acceptable from a performance standpoint since in node the event loop will just stop and wait for that to finish before doing anything else. http:

Yea, he means acceptable from a performance standpoint since in node the event loop will just stop and wait for that to finish before doing anything else. http://nodejs.org/#about http://nodejs.org/#about The `*Sync` methods are really only there for convenience sake, so you don't end up with 'banana code' around your whole app because of your initialization (reading config files, etc).