Sadly, using nonblocking I/O and green threads *for blocking workloads* is a lot slower than just using blocking I/O in the first place.
@tjholowaychuk Plus when the operation finishes you have to punt the sleeping task awake, so more locks
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@pcwalton does that statement then apply to the event loop and coros etc? Not so much the ev loop I suppose but other lightweight threads -
@tjholowaychuk It's just what we've observed in Rust with green threads talking to one async I/O task…can't say if it applies to all systems
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