async/await in C#

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GetDataSynchronously() calls task. Result, BLOCKING the current thread (say, the UI thread, or an ASP. NET request thread) until the task completes. 2. Parallelism: Genuinely Different Problems await httpClient. GetAsync(url); // the THREAD isn't busy computing anything during this wait — // to do other work in the meantime (Section 4). Task. Run genuinely is the right tool for offloading CPU-bound work onto a background thread pool thread so it doesn't block a UI thread or a request thread — but wrapping a blocking, synchronous I/O call in Task.

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