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Asynchronous Programming in Rust

By : Carl Fredrik Samson
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Book Image

Asynchronous Programming in Rust

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By: Carl Fredrik Samson

Overview of this book

Step into the world of asynchronous programming with confidence by conquering the challenges of unclear concepts with this hands-on guide. Using functional examples, this book simplifies the trickiest concepts, exploring goroutines, fibers, futures, and callbacks to help you navigate the vast Rust async ecosystem with ease. You’ll start by building a solid foundation in asynchronous programming and explore diverse strategies for modeling program flow. The book then guides you through concepts like epoll, coroutines, green threads, and callbacks using practical examples. The final section focuses on Rust, examining futures, generators, and the reactor-executor pattern. You’ll apply your knowledge to create your own runtime, solidifying expertise in this dynamic domain. Throughout the book, you’ll not only gain proficiency in Rust's async features but also see how Rust models asynchronous program flow. By the end of the book, you'll possess the knowledge and practical skills needed to actively contribute to the Rust async ecosystem.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Part 1:Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals
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Part 2:Event Queues and Green Threads
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Part 3:Futures and async/await in Rust

Step 3 – Implementing a proper Reactor

The final part of our example is the Reactor. Our Reactor will:

  • Efficiently wait and handle events that our runtime is interested in
  • Store a collection of Waker types and make sure to wake the correct Waker when it gets a notification on a source it’s tracking
  • Provide the necessary mechanisms for leaf futures such as HttpGetFuture, to register and deregister interests in events
  • Provide a way for leaf futures to store the last received Waker

When we’re done with this step, we should have everything we need for our runtime, so let’s get to it.

Start by opening the reactor.rs file.

The first thing we do is add the dependencies we need:

ch08/b-reactor-executor/src/runtime/reactor.rs

use crate::runtime::Waker;
use mio::{net::TcpStream, Events, Interest, Poll, Registry, Token};
use std::{
    collections::HashMap,
    sync::{
   ...