Asynchronously Preloaded LINQ Queries

As a rule of thumb, when presented with two independent blocking I/O operations on more than one independent devices, it’s best to use threads to create parallel operations, instead of waiting for a single synchronous operation to complete. That way, executing operations O1, …, On, each of which take T1, …, Tn will result in total time where T < T1 + … + Tn, instead of T = T1 + … + Tn….

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