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async

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abbreviation, not comparable Abbreviation of asynchronous The tradeoff is that the first time an async event causes a scheduling point, it incurs the thread creation overhead that it has avoided.

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@misc{async_2026,
  title = {async},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/async},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}