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Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

Oxide and Friends

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Is There a Thread in a Task?

McElroy: One of the neat things about a thread is that it's only at one place and one time. He says we implement asynchrony in hubris by having a series of asynchronous tasks. And effectively, everything was like your writing async a weight code. McElroy: We do have to acknowledge that user level processes have a right to their own internal parallelism.

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