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> But are we really saying that the primary motivation for async/await is performance?

Of course - what else would it be? The whole async trend started because moving away from each http request spawning (or being bound to) an OS thread gave quite extreme improvements in requests/second metrics, didn't it?

parent nchie 6 months ago

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