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Re:Async Python is not faster by dragonwriter on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:35PM (#23501630)
> OS threads are orders of magnitude lighter than any Python coroutine implementation.

But python threads, which have extra weight on top of an cross-platform abstraction layer on top of the underlying OS threads, are not lighter than python coroutines.

You aren't choosing between Python threads and unadorned OS threads when writing Python code.

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Re:Async Python is not faster by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:31AM (#23507588)
You're absolutely right.

I'm pointing out that this is a Python problem, not a threads problem, a fact which people don't understand.

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Re:Async Python is not faster by dragonwriter on Saturday June 13, 2020 @06:45AM (#23508522)
Everyone has been discussing relative performance of different techniques within Python; there is neither a basis to suggest from that that people don't understand that aspects of that are Python specific, nor a reason to think that that is even particularly relevant to the discussion.
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