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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Threads across programming languages
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 23:16:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 2 May 2024 07:53:21 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Am 02.05.2024 um 07:39 schrieb Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
> 
>> Another reason to avoid threads. So long as your async tasks have an 
await
>> call somewhere in their main loops, that should be sufficient to avoid
>> most bottlenecks.
> 
> If you have a stream of individual I/Os and the processing of the I/Os
> takes more time than the time between the I/Os you need threads.

That makes the CPU the bottleneck. Which is not the case we’re discussing 
here.