Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Learning Rust

You're reading from   Learning Rust A comprehensive guide to writing Rust applications

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884306
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Vesa Kaihlavirta Vesa Kaihlavirta
Author Profile Icon Vesa Kaihlavirta
Vesa Kaihlavirta
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing and Installing Rust FREE CHAPTER 2. Variables 3. Input and Output 4. Conditions, Recursion, and Loops 5. Remember, Remember 6. Creating Your Own Rust Applications 7. Matching and Structures 8. The Rust Application Lifetime 9. Introducing Generics, Impl, and Traits 10. Creating Your Own Crate 11. Concurrency in Rust 12. Now It's Your Turn! 13. The Standard Library 14. Foreign Function Interfaces

Concurrency in Rust

Computers have come a long way in the last 35 years or so. Originally, we had the likes of the 6502, 6809, and Z80 processors. These were known as single processing units; they could only run a single program at a time and software ran in a linear fashion (this meant that performing two tasks at once wasn't possible).

Processors moved on, and from the single processing units (single-core), we moved on to processors that contained multiple processing units (multi-core). Programming languages evolved to allow for this form of processor, and running multiple operations (threads) at the same time became a reality.

Rust, being a very modern language, also has this ability to multiprocess. All of the benefits are available that you would expect from Rust (such as memory safety and avoiding race conditions), but there are some other things that you need to be...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime