# How are awaits handled that don't call an async function?

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**Created:** [September 15, 2021, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/how-are-awaits-handled-that-dont-call-an-async-function/7254 "2021-09-15T13:44:36Z")\
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_Every_ `await` causes a yield, so to say, and other things can happen while that happens, even an “internal” call like `await go()`. This `await go()` isn’t much different from `await otherCanister.doSomething()` in that respect.

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