Async usage readxml

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hi,

I am trying use @async but it seems I am not using it properly. My code looks like something below. Note url is a dummy name.

using EzXML 

function test1()
  item = ["name1", "name2","name3"]
  url = "http://my.website/web-service/value="
  xdoc = Vector(undef, 3)
  for i in 1:3
    xdoc[i] = EzXML.readxml(string(url,item[i]))
  end
  return xdoc
end 

function test2()
  item = ["name1", "name2","name3"]
  url = "http://my.website/web-service/value="
  xdoc = Vector(undef, 3)
  @sync for i in 1:3
    @async xdoc[i] = EzXML.readxml(string(url,item[i]))
  end
  return xdoc
end 

@time test1()
  7.21 seconds (102k allocations: 7.047 KiB) 

@time test2()
  7.33 seconds (318k allocations: 26.156 KiB)

I would expect test2 to be faster but it is not. Would you be able to help?

Thank you
Kind regards