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How would you redesign the Node.js event loop for ultra-low latency systems?

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Quick Answer For ultra-low latency, the event loop polling mechanism (libuv epoll/kqueue) would need tuning รขโ‚ฌโ€ using busy-wait polling instead of sleep-based waiting, eliminating GC pauses via object pooling, pre-JIT-compiling hot code paths at startup, and pinning the Node.js process to a specific CPU core to avoid context-switching overhead.

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Minimize GC interruptions, offload CPU-heavy tasks to native modules, reduce promises, use real-time thread scheduling, pinned threads, predictable memory allocation, and remove unnecessary async layers.
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