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Reading this is like reading early Renaissance alchemist arguing about how much mercury they need to combine with how much silver to create gold... This is so far gone I don't even know where to begin...

> It may be IO that gives AsyncIO its name, but Textual doesn't do any IO of its own.

So why on Earth are you using AsyncIO? You don't need it, if that's true...

> Those tasks are used to power message queues

How are your message queues not doing I/O? What on Earth are they doing then?

Needless to say that the whole benchmark is worthless because it never even initiates anything that would be involved when creating actual asynchronous I/O tasks...

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I mean, I know, in Pythonland this is just your average Wednesday, but dear lord, if you don't visit that land all that often it shocks you more every time you do.

parent crabbone 3 years ago

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