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> Coroutines are basically just user-space threads

Except you don't have preemption, so you may get e.g. latency issues.



Whereas with threads you don't get latency issues?


With threads, latency problems are spread out more evenly by design.


Ah well, experience tells us that scheduling latency under load with Linux is a difficult topic.




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