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Async vs Asynchronism - What's the difference?

async | asynchronism |

As an adjective async

is (computing) asynchronous.

As a noun asynchronism is

asynchrony.

async

English

Adjective

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  • (computing) Asynchronous.
  • * 2002 , Peter Dibble, Real-time Java platform programming
    • The tradeoff is that the first time an async event causes a scheduling point, it incurs the thread creation overhead that it has avoided.

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    asynchronism

    English

    Noun

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  • asynchrony