Well, I don't think the answers explain the original motivation for the terminology. But here's my take from what I came to know so far: synchronous - act based on a point of time, like the end …

2009年12月3日 · I am trying to run a function or procedure in Delphi asynchronously, but without using a component, is there a way to do it with delphi core functions?

2017年12月4日 · Using a runloop it is possible to do asynchronous stuff in a single thread (but you probably need a complete framework with support for that). Apple's Objective-C/Cocoa …

2010年11月19日 · An asynchronous web service allows a client to submit a request, process the request and respond to the client after a given time -- the client would not block all activity on …

2017年3月28日 · The important thing to understand is that the inner function (function(result)) will be executed at some later point in time, possibly long after the parent function finished …

2012年2月20日 · Asynchronous request are not faster than synchronous ones, no matter how you do them they still do the same exact thing. The only this that changes is rather you block on …

The term asynchronous is related to thread execution. In an asynchronous model, when one task gets executed, you can switch to a different task without waiting for the previous task to get …

> "So Fibers is a tool or a library?" - follow the link I provided. I don't see the point in copying the official PHP documentation here. > "You are expected to demonstrate how it can be used to …

This is covered by Python 3 Subprocess Examples under "Wait for command to terminate asynchronously". Run this code using IPython or python -m asyncio:

2013年5月23日 · Synchronous / Asynchronous communication has nothing to do with application waiting or not for resources. Synchronous communication is when communication looks like …