| ▲ | the_mitsuhiko 2 days ago | |
I would make the argument it does not matter what the intention is, in practice people await CPU bound tasks all the time. In fact, here is what the offical docs[1] say: > You could also have CPU-bound code, such as performing an expensive calculation, which is also a good scenario for writing async code. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/asynchronous... | ||
| ▲ | coldtea 2 days ago | parent [-] | |
>You could also have CPU-bound code, such as performing an expensive calculation, which is also a good scenario for writing async code. That's a scenario for a different reason though (to allow sharing the cpu between chunks of the calculation, e.g. to not freeze UI in JS). In that case you might want to async on CPU-bound code. But regarding maximizing utilization, you want async to take more advantage of a core's CPU when you got tasks waiting for IO, and threads to leverage more CPU cores when doing CPU bound tasks. | ||