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by GroSacASacs 3342 days ago
What does it even mean. The event loop is only used when there is nothing going on. Is it faster at doing nothing ?
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> The event loop is only used when there is nothing going on.

In async applications event loop is what actually executes your code and performs IO. In essence, event loops are under load all the time.