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Asynchronous vs synchronous execution. What is the difference?

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When you execute something synchronously, you wait for it to finish before moving on to another task. When you execute something asynchronously, you can move on to another task before it finishes. In the context of operating systems, this corresponds to executing a process or task on a “thread.” A thread is a series of … Read more

What is the difference between launch/join and async/await in Kotlin coroutines

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launch is used to fire and forget coroutine. It is like starting a new thread. If the code inside the launch terminates with exception, then it is treated like uncaught exception in a thread — usually printed to stderr in backend JVM applications and crashes Android applications. join is used to wait for completion of … Read more

asynchronous and non-blocking calls? also between blocking and synchronous

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In many circumstances they are different names for the same thing, but in some contexts they are quite different. So it depends. Terminology is not applied in a totally consistent way across the whole software industry. For example in the classic sockets API, a non-blocking socket is one that simply returns immediately with a special … Read more

Asynchronous vs synchronous execution, what is the main difference? [closed]

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When you execute something synchronously, you wait for it to finish before moving on to another task. When you execute something asynchronously, you can move on to another task before it finishes. That being said, in the context of computers this translates into executing a process or task on another “thread.” A thread is a … Read more