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Async vs Asynchronous - What's the difference?

async | asynchronous |

As adjectives the difference between async and asynchronous

is that async is (computing) asynchronous while asynchronous is not synchronous; occurring at different times.

async

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (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.

    Anagrams

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    asynchronous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * asynch (colloquial)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
  • (computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
  • (computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other; the style of communication used by Ajax.

    • Synonyms

    * metachronous

    Antonyms

    * synchronous