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{{Short description|Computer programming technique}}

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'''Asynchrony''', in [[computer programming]], refers to the occurrence of events independent of the main [[control flow|program flow]] and ways to deal with such events. These may be "outside" events such as the arrival of [[Unix signal|signals]], or actions instigated by a program that take place [[concurrent computing|concurrently]] with program execution, without the program [[hang (computing)|blocking]] to wait for results.<ref name="davies">{{cite book |title=Async in C# 5.0 |first=Alex |last=Davies |publisher=O'Reilly |year=2012 |pages=1–2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xT45qhFrVnUC}}</ref> [[Asynchronous I/O|Asynchronous input/output]] is an example of the latter case of asynchrony, and lets programs issue commands to storage or network devices that service these requests while the [[Central processing unit|processor]] continues executing the program. Doing so provides a degree of [[parallel computing|parallelism]].{{r|davies}}