Sure, but I didn't think anything about async functions implied running tasks. Isn't it just syntactic sugar over futures? You certainly don't need to use the t

Sure, but I didn't think anything about async functions implied running tasks. Isn't it just syntactic sugar over futures? You certainly don't need to use the tokio runtime in order to use async functions. So, it's not clear why you'd abandon the async syntax just because you're compute bound.