cthrowago

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1. 1.▲
   by cthrowago 11y ago

   Yes.
2. 2.▲
   by cthrowago 11y ago

   It's single-threaded, so coroutine locks are trivial and other locks "can't block" (against coroutines, anyway).
3. 3.▲
   by cthrowago 11y ago

   Sort of. They enable non-blocking network IO. Disk IO in unix always blocks (aio excepted). Disk IO in Windows can by async, but not via select or poll.
4. 4.▲
   by cthrowago 11y ago

   I can imagine it being nice if you're tied to existing C code. Or if you want C-style memory management.