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Asynchronous Programming in Rust

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Product type Book

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805128137

Pages 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Development

Author (1):

Carl Fredrik Samson

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Asynchronous Programming Fundamentals

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...

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Authors (1)

Carl Fredrik Samson

Carl Fredrik Samson is a popular technology writer and has been active in the Rust community since 2018. He has an MSc in Business Administration where he specialized in strategy and finance. When not writing, he's a father of two children and a CEO of a company with 300 employees. He's been interested in different kinds of technologies his whole life and his programming experience ranges from programming against old IBM mainframes to modern cloud computing, using everything from assembly to Visual Basic for Applications. He has contributed to several open source projects including the official documentation for asynchronous Rust.

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