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Comment by rwmj

Coroutines are fun, but in real code please consider using actual threads. Modern processors have many cores, but coroutines will (often) only use a single core.

Edit to add: This is a real world problem too. Until recently qemu, which extensively uses coroutines, would put a lot of its block device I/O through a single thread. This caused some performance issues. Kevin Wolf and others have spent years of effort fixing this so modern qemu will use many threads for I/O (this work will appear in RHEL 9.4).

parent rwmj 2 years ago

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