I don't really get what the advantage of having the EventLoop running on a Threadpool instead of of a single thread is? At first it sounds like disadvantage bec

I don't really get what the advantage of having the EventLoop running on a Threadpool instead of of a single thread is? At first it sounds like disadvantage because of more context switches. It might be helpful if you really want to run a lot of Javascript EventLoops - but that's not the node.js programming model.