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Language design with Leo White
Signals and Threads
Empowering Programmers with Performance Optimization Control
The method of optimization in programming involves a choice between transforming general code into efficient machine code at the compiler level or giving precise control to programmers over performance details. Providing control to programmers is highlighted through examples like macros, limited continuations in LISPs, and async await in various languages. Async await allows for writing concurrency in a direct style, while generators and coroutines offer additional features for concurrency in languages like Python.
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