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Re:Ask HN: Event loop vs. Threads by DanWaterworth on Monday May 28, 2012 @12:56PM (#4034096)
It probably depends, but the cost of creating a heap allocated closure and then running it and deallocating it can be quite high against the cost of 2 context switches.
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