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Re:Zero-cost futures in Rust by gpderetta on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:29PM (#12272105)
Coroutines would still run on top of std::future, it would be Just syntactic sugar to avoid callback hell via then chaining. In same case this might save some allocation as the callback would be a plain pointer to the control block, but that's about it.

I'm not part of the committee nor I attend meetings, but I follow the papers and the public online discussions.

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Re:Zero-cost futures in Rust by soulbadguy on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:39PM (#12272153)
From the last Gor paper, coroutine don't need to run on top of the std::future class. The type traits required allows for more computational patters (like generators, agent/actor, full coroutines) etc...
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Re:Zero-cost futures in Rust by gpderetta on Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:31PM (#12272456)
No, but they are still designed to work well with std::futures and that's going to be the standard blessed way to do async IO.
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