atask

atask is a flexible task model for building async executors.

First, create a queue to hold the scheduled tasks.

let (sender, reciever) = flume::unbounded();

A task is spawned using a spawn* function.

let future = async { "hewwo" };

let schedule = move |runnable| sender.send(runnable).unwrap();

let (runnable, handle) = atask::spawn(future);

runnable.schedule();

Finally, the spawned tasks must be polled.

for runnable in receiver {
    runnable.run();
}

Differences from async-task

async-task is a very similar library with a few key differences.

The primary differences are:

• Cancelling or detaching a task does not consume the handle.
• Tasks are detached rather than consumed on dropping the handle.

Cargo features

• std (default): Enables the use of the standard library and enables the spawn_local messages.