tokio-executor

Task execution related traits and utilities.

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Overview

In the Tokio execution model, futures are lazy. When a future is created, no work is performed. In order for the work defined by the future to happen, the future must be submitted to an executor. A future that is submitted to an executor is called a "task".

The executor is responsible for ensuring that [Future::poll] is called whenever the task is [notified]. Notification happens when the internal state of a task transitions from "not ready" to ready. For example, a socket might have received data and a call to read will now be able to succeed.

This crate provides traits and utilities that are necessary for building an executor, including:

• The Executor trait describes the API for spawning a future onto an executor.

• enter marks that the the current thread is entering an execution context. This prevents a second executor from accidentally starting from within the context of one that is already running.

• DefaultExecutor spawns tasks onto the default executor for the current context.

• Park abstracts over blocking and unblocking the current thread.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.

Contribution

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