Do wp-cron scheduled tasks run asynchronously?

No, the WP-Cron tasks run asynchronously from the viewing user. They should not see any delay.

Although if your task takes more than a minute, it may never finish since most hosts are setup to kill PHP processes after 30 seconds.

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