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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by weberc2 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @10:05PM (#19010132)
I don’t think your analogy is very good. Boots are useful besides driving nails. What is async/await useful for except concurrency?
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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by da_chicken on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:43PM (#19010373)
I have no experience with Go, but boots being useful at tasks other than driving nails was pretty clearly exactly their point.
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Re:Memory usage of a toy C# server and client with 500K conc... by weberc2 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @11:53PM (#19010396)
Right, so what's the thing that async/await is good at other than concurrency?
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