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by geodel 1041 days ago
Point is exactly you can block because blocking is cheap with virtual thread and can have 100's of thousand block calls with exhausting all system resources. VT takes few KBs of memory instead of few MBs of memory, so plentiful of VT is a feature. With this one can write plain blocking code get benefit of async scalability but with simple APIs structure and debuggable sync code.