Re:How to think about `async`/`await` in Rust
by amelius on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:44AM
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Async is great for dealing with I/O but it forgets that the CPU is a resource too.
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Re:How to think about `async`/`await` in Rust
by Spivak on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:18PM
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Which is why you queue up CPU intensive tasks to threads where you can time slice, and IO intensive tasks to async/fibers whatever you wanna call them. It's hard to make this completely seamless. Power to Java for getting the closest.