2 years ago

Imagine a world where your Instagram froze anytime you uploaded a photo to your page. Async operations speed computation, from your browser to highest of high-frequency trading operations

Her talk, “Speedup Your Code Through Asynchronous Programming” centered around the need for programming asynchronously in Python and JavaScript, drilling in on the three methods of async programming — threads, callbacks, and async functions. She considered multiple factors of async programming, the first being concurrency, but including other criteria such as memory usage and readability, writing async functions.

A thread runs the function in the background and multiple threads run at the same time.