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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)
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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

Background information

We are going to interfere with and control the CPU directly. This is not very portable since there are many kinds of CPUs out there. While the overall implementation will be the same, there is a small but important part of the implementation that will be very specific to the CPU architecture we’re programming for. Another aspect that limits the portability of our code is that operating systems have different ABIs that we need to adhere to, and those same pieces of code will have to change based on the different ABIs. Let’s explain exactly what we mean here before we go further so we know we’re on the same page.

Instruction sets, hardware architectures, and ABIs

Okay, before we start, we need to know the differences between an application binary interface (ABI), a CPU architecture, and an instruction set architecture (ISA). We need this to write our own stack and make the CPU jump over to it. Fortunately, while this might sound complex...