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by __s 2436 days ago
This is essentially the same problem schedulers run into. It's a latency vs throughput trade off. The article is underlining that blocking is bad, & lots of tasks may receive cancellation signals

I've worked in low latency environments, but I prefer high throughput. The latter is more conducive to flow state. It also means people aren't relying on my consistency, where some days my brain turns on & some days it doesn't