Front matter
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the author
about the cover illustration
1 Getting to know asyncio
1.1 What is asyncio?
1.2 What is I/O-bound and what is CPU-bound?
1.3 Understanding concurrency, parallelism, and multitasking
Concurrency
Parallelism
The difference between concurrency and parallelism
What is multitasking?
The benefits of cooperative multitasking
1.4 Understanding processes, threads, multithreading, and multiprocessing
Process
Thread
1.5 Understanding the global interpreter lock
Is the GIL ever released?
asyncio and the GIL
1.6 How single-threaded concurrency works
What is a socket?
1.7 How an event loop works
2 asyncio basics
2.1 Introducing coroutines
