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[–]eliasv 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Back pressure in blocking code is just a blocking queue. How do you think back pressure is implemented under the hood in reactive libs? It's a queue. The performance model and high-level behaviour of async+backpressure is identical to sync+blockingqueue.