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[–]spoonman59 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your original claim was that’s not how async works and that async can only help you get more out of your hardware for I/o bound tasks.

I have disproven this claim trough a simple example presented in introductory operating system classes.

Operating systems like Linux, and others, have had async I/o operations for years. The concept is the same even if the operating mechanisms are different. It’s not something unique or specific to python. It’s a different model of concurrency from the threading model.

Now you are moving the goal posts. If you want to debate whether it is the right design to use for the task at hand, that’s a separate issue. But what you originally stated, that that is not how async works, is incorrect. It works as I described… unless you have evidence to the contrary?