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(Quite) A Few Words About Async

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I’ve had a few conversations about async code recently (and not so recently) and seen some code that seems to make wrong assumptions about async, so I figured out it was time to have a serious chat about async, what it’s for, what it guarantees and what it doesn’t.

I’ve had a few conversations about async code recently (and not so recently) and seen some code that seems to make wrong assumptions about async, so I figured out it was time to have a serious chat about async, what it’s for, what it guarantees and what it doesn’t. Most of the code in this entry will be written with Python syntax (and often Python libraries), but with a few minor exceptions, we’ll be discussing concepts that are valid across languages. There’s more than one kind of performance We all know about performance, right? I mean, there is some task we want our code to do (display…

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