are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do everything they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: Callback argument Return a placeholder (Future, Promise

are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do everything they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: Callback argument Return a placeholder (Future, Promise

are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do every- thing they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: • Callback argument • Return a placeholder (Future

are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do everything they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: Callback argument Return a placeholder (Future, Promise

are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do every- thing they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: • Callback argument • Return a placeholder (Future

are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do every- thing they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: • Callback argument • Return a placeholder (Future

Tornado Documentation, Release 6.0.4 Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do every- thing they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: • Callback argument • Return a placeholder (Future

are not quite the same thing. Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do everything they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: Callback argument Return a placeholder (Future, Promise

13Tornado Documentation, Release 6.5.1 Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do every- thing they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: • Callback argument • Return a placeholder (Future

Tornado Documentation, Release 6.4 Blocking A function blocks when it waits for something to happen before returning. A function may block for many reasons: network I/O, disk I/O, mutexes, etc. In fact, every minimized. Asynchronous An asynchronous function returns before it is finished, and generally causes some work to happen in the background before triggering some future action in the application (as opposed opposed to normal synchronous functions, which do every- thing they are going to do before returning). There are many styles of asynchronous interfaces: • Callback argument • Return a placeholder (Future