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When there's sync OS APIs what's the point of async over threads? I thought async APIs use async or polling version of syscalls and not blocking ones.
by chakkepolja 5y ago
When there's sync OS APIs what's the point of async over threads? I thought async APIs use async or polling version of syscalls and not blocking ones.
- davidfowl 5y agoBecause there are sometimes better things to do than block more threads. We can asynchronously queue dns requests to the same address (this is what we do in .NET 6)