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This is an essential truth of async in its purest form: There is no thread.
The objectors to this truth are legion. “No,” they cry, “if I am awaiting an operation, there must be a thread that is doing the wait! It’s probably a thread pool thread. Or an OS thread! Or something with a device driver…”
There is no thread waiting for the operation to complete is their point.
There is no thread waiting for the operation to complete is their point.