[jauntywundrkind]

You aren't using your chips efficiently. That's basically it. Maybe your use case justifies it but you are not taking advantage of a massive part of what chips do. That's on you. And it does make you a pretty weird different use case than most software development.

Fine, you've talked you yourself deeply into a conviction that async doesn't and won't ever matter for you. But man, most people are properly doing the right thing by optimizing for throighput, not single events, and async has altered the game on amazingly colossally positive ways for computing efficiency.

[immibis]

Squeezing every ounce of latency out of a system is just as valid mechanical sympathy as squeezing out every ounce of throughput.