Asynchronous processing is more efficient -- surely not?

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2018-04-04, 07:27 GMT, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm no expert, but it seems to me that this has surely got to 
> be crazy talk. Whatever task you're doing, processing it 
> asynchronously doesn't reduce the amount of work. For example, 
> if you want to download ten files, you still have to download 
> all ten files, and they're not any smaller or the network 
> connection any faster because you're using async.

I agree that the formulation is unfortunate, but your argument 
seems to lie only on semantics. Anyway, this 
https://hackernoon.com/asynchronous-python-45df84b82434 seems to 
be a better explanation of cooperative green threads and 
eventually also asyncio.

Best,

Matěj
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