Async or Coroutine for loading different JSON files from an array?

Unity Engine
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1

I would like to do something like this:

for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
{
var s = do the loading then continue iteration
}

Should I do this with a coroutine or maybe async? Can anyone give a simple example?

2

Or just do it? Or try all three? Immediate, async and coroutine… It’s not a huge change, feels super easy to test.

3

I’d use async to load and deserialize files, you can use multithreading for those tasks without freezing the main thread and async is just very convenient when interfacing with multithreading

4

I agree you should just try them all to see what you like, but the general rule of thumb should be “if this needs to be synchronized with the framerate, use a Coroutine, otherwise, use an async (even if on some platforms it amounts to the same thing).”