From what I remember when I looked at Node's Stream source, I believe they're pure JS. They depend on the EventEmitter and they basically emit a "data" event wi

From what I remember when I looked at Node's Stream source, I believe they're pure JS. They depend on the EventEmitter and they basically emit a "data" event with a chunk of data as many times as needed. My main question is that since it's an instance of EventEmitter, and EventEmitter uses a synchronous loop to "emit" events, wouldn't stream-intensive code be slowed down by lots of requests due to the synchronous nature of EventEmitter?