How to run "threads" in parallel?

Developers Motoko
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Following this advice, I use the following code:

        let nThreads = 3;
        let threads : [var ?(async*())] = Array.init(nThreads, null);
        for (threadNum in threads.keys()) {
            threads[threadNum] := ?runThread({threadNum; var referenceTree; var rng; index; guidGen});
        };     
        label F for (topt in threads.vals()) {
            let ?t = topt else {
                Debug.trap("programming error");
            };
            await* t;
            // break F;
        }

But contrary to how I understand this answer, the threads don’t run in parallel (despite every thread contains plenty of awaits), but run in order: 0, 1, 2.

Moreover, contrary to the answer that says that Motoko futures are eager, if I uncomment break F, then only the first thread runs (the answer seems to imply that all three threads will be run at the point of the first await* t).

What I misunderstand? How to make several threads to run in parallel? I mean collaborative parallelism at points of awaits (and await*s?)

2

I’ve found: If I use async/await instead of async*/await*, it all works as expected.

But isn’t this a bug/misfeature that it does not work with await*?