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34. Async/Await Basics

Futures are lazy state machines.

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An `async fn` returns a Future that does nothing until polled by an executor such as tokio or async-std. `.await` yields control while waiting on I/O, allowing thousands of concurrent tasks on few threads. Blocking calls inside async code stall the executor.

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