Whenever I find myself wrapped around a post on these topics, I force myself back to 1 fundamental question: > Will this action/design increase or decrease the

Whenever I find myself wrapped around a post on these topics, I force myself back to 1 fundamental question: > Will this action/design increase or decrease the amount of latency incurred on the hot path relative to the physical layout of my processor. So far, keeping an eye on this has guided me well. There are no silver bullets either. async/await is elegant, but it incurrs substantial latency overhead compared to busy waiting over batches of work (which itself has obvious caveats).