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> I suppose this might be useful in situations where you are querying an API(s) with multiple requests and some will certainly return seconds before others.

But it's still a serialized operation so the parallelism is still limited. What's really needed is a "parallel reduce" using something like C's select function that will reduce in an arbitrary order using any promises that are ready at any given step.




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