Asynchronous processing is more efficient -- surely not?
Matěj Cepl
mcepl at cepl.eu
Wed Apr 4 10:19:18 EDT 2018
On 2018-04-04, 07:27 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm no expert, but it seems to me that this has surely got to
> be crazy talk. Whatever task you're doing, processing it
> asynchronously doesn't reduce the amount of work. For example,
> if you want to download ten files, you still have to download
> all ten files, and they're not any smaller or the network
> connection any faster because you're using async.
I agree that the formulation is unfortunate, but your argument
seems to lie only on semantics. Anyway, this
https://hackernoon.com/asynchronous-python-45df84b82434 seems to
be a better explanation of cooperative green threads and
eventually also asyncio.
Best,
Matěj
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