"the syntax for kicking off dozens of IO requests and collecting all the results is trivial."
Please show me this trivial code, assuming I want to process 12 requests in parallel at most (and always processing 12 at the same time until there's non left to process).
Please show me this trivial code, assuming I want to process 12 requests in parallel at most (and always processing 12 at the same time until there's non left to process).