> I don't see the relevance of PostMessage, it doesn't sleep so is not useful in implementing await. It doesn't sleep today which means it was useless as await 30 years ago? What kind of logic is that ...

The async/await asynchronous programming facilities in .NET solve one of its longstanding problems - how to write an elegant application that uses the UI correctly. But to avoid problems you still ...

> The user space stack will grow from 4K to 16K. Usespace stack can always be swapped out. Kernel threads are limiting factor, not userspace. > If async/await existed 30 years ago in C it would make ...

If you have used the DoEvents command in Visual Basic you might see that this is a very similar mechanism in that it allows the UI thread to process the Dispatch queue but also notice that this is ...