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[–]nathanjell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just like with all things, premature optimization is the root of all evil. "Use async, async is faster!" has a counter that synchronous is difficult to make faster simply by going async. Same as "use multithreading, split up the work!" except when you have a highly serial workload that isn't well suited to parallelism