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> It helps keep the app responsive while using less resources and avoiding lockups and crashes.

it actually uses more resources. async has a cost, but it is really low.

There is a resource tradeoff. async/await has a minor CPU/memory impact, but it can also free up threads to do other work during an I/O bound operation.

Threads have their own resource cost.

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