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**Note**: You can mix `def` and `async def` in your *path operation functions* as much as you need and define each one using the best option for you. FastAPI will do the right thing with them.

Anyway, in any of the cases above, FastAPI will still work asynchronously and be extremely fast.

But by following the steps above, it will be able to do some performance optimizations.

## Technical Details

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Si estás utilizando libraries de terceros que se comunican con algo (una base de datos, una API, el sistema de archivos, etc.) y no tienes soporte para `await` (este es el caso para la mayoría de las libraries de bases de datos), declara tus *path operation functions* de forma habitual, con solo `def`, de la siguiente manera:

```Python hl_lines="2"
@app.get('/')
def results():
    results = some_library()
    return results
```