ELI5: The benefits of using "async" for this? #68
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Use case would be real-time data sensitivity. You don't want to slow down or pause real-time data for menial sub-tasks like retrieving watchlists and other things. There is more to it than that, but essentially async programming allows you to off-load tasks into other threads so it doesn't block the main thread. |
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Use case would be real-time data sensitivity. You don't want to slow down or pause real-time data for menial sub-tasks like retrieving watchlists and other things. There is more to it than that, but essentially async programming allows you to off-load tasks into other threads so it doesn't block the main thread.