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Asynchronous Programming in Rust

By : Carl Fredrik Samson
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Book Image

Asynchronous Programming in Rust

5 (2)
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)
Free Chapter
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Part 1:Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals
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Part 2:Event Queues and Green Threads
8
Part 3:Futures and async/await in Rust

Improving our example 3 – this is… not… good…

Pretend you haven’t read this section title and enjoy the fact that our previous example compiled and showed the correct result.

I think our coroutine implementation is so good now that we can look at some optimizations instead. There is one optimization in our executor in particular that I want to do immediately.

Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s set everything up:

  • Create a new folder called c-coroutines-problem and copy everything from b-coroutines-references over to it
  • You can change the name of the project so that it corresponds with the folder by changing the name attribute in the package section in Cargo.toml, but it’s not something you need to do for the example to work

Tip

This example is located in this book’s GitHub repository in the ch09/c-coroutines-problem folder.

With that, everything has been set up.

Back to the optimization. You...