[Discussion] Asynchronous Networks

[dglmoore]

This is a discussion question. Please comment with any thoughts you may have.

Essentially all of our network types and algorithms are synchronous. This has been fine up to this point as we've not really cared about the distinction, and there's some reason to think that sensitivity doesn't care much about the synchronicity (#17). However, this may be a feature we want or need in v1.0.

1. How big of a priority is asynchronous update, i.e. should we plan for it to be in the v1.0 release?
2. What are some good example systems with asynchronous models?
3. Are you personally interested in working on an asynchronous implementation?