A mechanism that pulls queued events one at a time to drive processing forward.
A mechanism that pulls events and callbacks that have queued up and processes them in order, forming the foundation of JavaScript's asynchronous processing. In a single-threaded environment like JavaScript, the event loop only pulls the next item from the queue after finishing the current task, so a single long-running operation blocks and delays every other pending event.
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