You're reading from Asynchronous Programming in Rust Learn asynchronous programming by building working examples of futures, green threads, and runtimes

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128137

Length 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Rust

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Carl Fredrik Samson

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming: a Detailed Overview

3. Chapter 2: How Programming Languages Model Asynchronous Program Flow

4. Chapter 3: Understanding OS-Backed Event Queues, System Calls, and Cross-Platform Abstractions

5. Part 2:Event Queues and Green Threads

6. Chapter 4: Create Your Own Event Queue

7. Chapter 5: Creating Our Own Fibers

8. Part 3:Futures and async/await in Rust

9. Chapter 6: Futures in Rust

10. Chapter 7: Coroutines and async/await

11. Chapter 8: Runtimes, Wakers, and the Reactor-Executor Pattern

12. Chapter 9: Coroutines, Self-Referential Structs, and Pinning

13. Chapter 10: Creating Your Own Runtime

14. Index

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Technical requirements

This chapter doesn’t require you to set up anything new, but since we’re writing some low-level code for three different platforms, you need access to these platforms if you want to run all the examples.

The best way to follow along is to open the accompanying repository on your computer and navigate to the ch03 folder.

This chapter is a little special since we build some basic understanding from the ground up, which means some of it is quite low-level and requires a specific operating system and CPU family to run. Don’t worry; I’ve chosen the most used and popular CPU, so this shouldn’t be a problem, but it is something you need to be aware of.

The machine must use a CPU using the x86-64 instruction set on Windows and Linux. Intel and AMD desktop CPUs use this architecture, but if you run Linux (or WSL) on a machine using an ARM processor you might encounter issues with some of the examples using inline assembly. On...