Jeff Dean is like a god around here. Fact: Jeff Dean was forced to invent asynchronous APIs one day when he optimized a function so that it returned before it w

Jeff Dean is like a god around here. Fact: Jeff Dean was forced to invent asynchronous APIs one day when he optimized a function so that it returned before it was invoked. Also, gcc -O4 sends your code directly to Jeff Dean for a rewrite.