Isn't a synchronous call just an asynchronous call with a small timeout value?

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Published on 2010-03-17T09:17:42Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 12:41 UTC
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I am a bit confused as to why a synchronous call is different to an asynchronous call, as there is never an "immediate" response, it still takes some nano or milliseconds?

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