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Re:Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust by jen20 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:50PM (#25523658)
> Why wouldn't you use threading?

Because the C10^nK problem where n increases periodically is still a thing?

Re:Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust by sanxiyn on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:07PM (#25523778)
I am not solving C10K problem.
Re:Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust by btrask on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:54PM (#25523684)
Green threads.
Re:Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust by coolreader18 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:22PM (#25523883)
Those are async tasks

Or rather -- async tasks are as close as you can get to green threads in rust without a runtime that would impose overhead on every program