⚡️ Speed up function some_api_call by 48%

The optimization transforms **sequential async execution into concurrent execution** using `asyncio.gather()`.

**Key Changes:**
- **Original**: Awaits each `fake_api_call` one at a time in a loop, creating a sequential bottleneck
- **Optimized**: Creates all tasks upfront in a list comprehension, then uses `asyncio.gather(*tasks)` to run them concurrently

**Why This is Faster:**
The original code has a fundamental async anti-pattern - it waits for each API call to complete before starting the next one, negating the benefits of async programming. With random delays of 0.5-2.0 seconds per call, the total runtime grows linearly with the number of URLs.

The optimized version leverages async concurrency properly by:
1. Creating all coroutine tasks immediately (no blocking)
2. Using `asyncio.gather()` to execute them simultaneously
3. Waiting only for the slowest task to complete, not the sum of all tasks

**Performance Impact:**
- **47% speedup** demonstrates the power of proper async concurrency
- Line profiler shows the optimized version processes many more calls (1030 vs 45 hits) in similar total time, indicating concurrent execution
- Most effective for workloads with multiple I/O-bound operations that can run independently

**Test Case Performance:**
This optimization excels with larger URL lists where the concurrent execution advantage multiplies, while maintaining identical correctness for all edge cases including empty lists, special characters, and mixed data types.

Author: codeflash-ai[bot]

code_to_optimize/async_examples/concurrency.py

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+import asyncio
+import time
+import random
+
+
+async def fake_api_call(delay, data):
+    await asyncio.sleep(delay)
+    return f"Processed: {data}"
+
+
+async def cpu_bound_task(n):
+    result = 0
+    for i in range(n):
+        result += i ** 2
+    return result
+
+
+async def some_api_call(urls):
+    tasks = [
+        fake_api_call(random.uniform(0.5, 2.0), url)
+        for i, url in enumerate(urls)
+    ]
+    return await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+
+
+async def inefficient_task_creation():
+    results = []
+    for i in range(10):
+        task = asyncio.create_task(fake_api_call(0.5, f"data_{i}"))
+        result = await task
+        results.append(result)
+    
+    return results
+
+
+async def manga():
+    results = []
+    
+    for i in range(5):
+        async_result = await fake_api_call(0.3, f"async_{i}")
+        results.append(async_result)
+        
+        time.sleep(0.5)
+        cpu_result = sum(range(100000))
+        results.append(f"CPU result: {cpu_result}")
+    
+    return results
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    async def main():
+        print("Running inefficient concurrency examples...")
+        
+        urls = [f"https://api.example.com/data/{i}" for i in range(5)]
+        start_time = time.time()
+        results = await sequential_api_calls(urls)
+        print(f"Sequential calls took: {time.time() - start_time:.2f}s")
+        
+        start_time = time.time()
+        results = await inefficient_task_creation()
+        print(f"Inefficient tasks took: {time.time() - start_time:.2f}s")
+        
+    asyncio.run(main())