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It makes concurrent programming much simpler than using threads.

Very few locking and care is needed with asyncio, as opposed to using threads. Race conditions are basically not a thing if you write reasonably idiomatic code.

It might be (or not) faster than using threads, but that's not the main benefit in my view - this easiness of use is.




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