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		vc8f6vVV on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you might want async in your project You wait on a shared channel so both read and sleep threads queue a message when ready (whichever comes first). Not sure about channels, but in other languages it would be a concurrent queue.

conradludgate on Sept 12, 2023 [–]

This won't cancel the read, it'll just ignore the result

vc8f6vVV on Sept 12, 2023 | [–]

Most languages I know allow killing a thread, or at least unblock a system call.

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