Re: Threads across programming languages

On 29 Apr 2024 15:19:19 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

  With asyncio, however, you can easily handle the application for
  threads to "wait in parallel" for thousands of sockets in a single
  thread, and there are fewer opportunities for errors than with
  multithreading.

It makes event-loop programming much more convenient. I posted a
simple example here from some years ago
<https://github.com/HamPUG/meetings/tree/master/2017/2017-05-08/ldo-generators-coroutines-asyncio>:
compare the version based on callbacks, with the one using asyncio:
the former is about 30% bigger.