In Swift Concurrency, what actually happens when execution hits an await, and how is that different from blocking a thread?
await suspends the function and gives the thread back to the pool, then resumes through a continuation once the result is ready. Unlike blocking a thread, it handles thousands of tasks with as many threads as there are cores.
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