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A Few Words About Async

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82 points vinhnx | 1 comments | 02 Nov 25 01:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | source
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jiggunjer ◴[02 Nov 25 04:52 UTC] No.45787918[source]▶
Recently had to familiarize myself with python async because a third party SDK relies on it.

In many cases the lib will rely on threads to handle calls to synchronous functions, got me wondering if there's a valid use case for running multiple async threads on a single core.

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1. electroglyph ◴[02 Nov 25 09:25 UTC] No.45788995[source]▶
i would say: probably not

if your async thread is so busy that you need another one, then it's probably not an async workload to begin with.

i work on a python app which uses threads and async, but only have one async thread because it's more than enough to handle all the async work i throw at it.