Async

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of asynchronous. abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable

    "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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asynchronous

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"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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