Asynchronous versus other programming models
Asynchronous programming is one of the major concepts in concurrency specifically, and in programming in general. However, it is quite a complex concept that can be considerably challenging for us to sometimes differentiate it from other programming models. In this section, we will be comparing asynchronous programming with synchronous programming and other concurrent programming models that we have seen (that is, threading and multiprocessing).
Asynchronous versus synchronous programming
Again, asynchronous programming is fundamentally different from synchronous programming because of its task-switching nature. In synchronous programming, the instructions of a program are executed sequentially: a task has to have finished executing before the next task in the program starts processing. With asynchronous programming, if the current task takes significant time to finish, you have the option to specify a time during the task at which the execution...
