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Re:V8 adds support for top-level await by Scooty on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:45PM (#21066407)
I'm not sure how they're handled internally, but async functions are no longer generators. For a while after generators and before async/await, generators were used as a polyfill.
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Re:V8 adds support for top-level await by pitaj on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:05AM (#21067501)
Because of how similar they are, it would make sense to implement async/await using existing generator backends in the VM, right?
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