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Re:The magic of asyncio explained by pas on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:08AM (#17714212)
> Spawning a thread may be complex, and thinking about how the threads are scheduled is often complex, but what each thread does can be very simple

And that's how it starts, and in the end it's New Year's Eve and you're somehow, again, debugging a deadlock.

> green threads

yes please

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Re:The magic of asyncio explained by gpderetta on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @10:43AM (#17716351)
You can deadlock with futures as well. Except that with futures you do not get a (two actually) nice call stack pointing to the deadlocked resource.
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