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Stephen Cleary
June 23, 2018
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The Async Invasion
Why so many languages are adopting async/await, and why that's a good thing.
Stephen Cleary
June 23, 2018
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StephenCleary.com async Future // In the Real World, we would
actually do something... await Future async await yield
StephenCleary.com async Future // In the Real World, we would
actually do something... await Future await async Future Future Future await
StephenCleary.com async Future // In the Real World, we would
actually do something... await Future await
StephenCleary.com async Future // In the Real World, we would
actually do something... await Future
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StephenCleary.com Next: • C++ (n4680 Coroutines) – C++20? • Kotlin
(experimental coroutines in 1.1) • Rust (nightly since 2017-08) Timeline
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StephenCleary.com Multithreaded Reactive (Event-Driven) Asynchronous Parallel Concurrent
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StephenCleary.com User mode Kernel mode My code OS Device driver
OVERLAPPED IRP ISR APC blog.stephencleary.com/2013/11/there-is-no-thread.html State: Created. State: In progress. State: Complete.
StephenCleary.com User mode Kernel mode My code OS Device driver
Thread IRP ISR APC blog.stephencleary.com/2013/11/there-is-no-thread.html State: Created. State: In progress. State: Complete/Running. State: Blocked.
StephenCleary.com Asynchronous API (complex) Synchronous API (simple) Synchronous API (simple)
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StephenCleary.com Client Server Primary benefit: Responsiveness Primary benefit: Scalability Keep
UI thread free Minimize threads used to serve requests Better UX 10x-100x scalability (same box) Required by many app stores Faster response to bursting traffic
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