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vlovich123 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about s...

Threads are still expensive in Python - can’t use them for concurrency really like you can with async io afaik.

ori_b 4 months ago [–]

I would be surprised if they were particularly expensive. There's a GIL, so you don't get concurrency benefits -- but that mainly makes them behave like async.

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