Alex Ogier

It sounds like there are some disagreements going on about the nature of this benchmark. The benchmark's description is "Skynet 1M threads microbenchmark", so it seems to me there is...

@schmitch I don't think the Futures example is "measuring the overhead of creating async tasks" because `Future.successful(num)` does not create an async task. It's called in a loop ten times...

@ochrons The implementation there is not actually `Task.FromResult(...)`, it's `Task.Run(() => Task.FromResult(...))`. Importantly it makes ten concurrent recursive calls instead of making ten sequential recursive calls and then using their...

@schmitch Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe Future.sequence() initiates exactly one new concurrent thread of execution: it awaits the completion of each of the futures passed to...

Some other items have similar issues. e.g. Vessel of Vinktar has three different effects.