Rust Concurrency Libraries
Pascal’s scribbles blog
March 10, 2017
A short overview.
I/O
- Model data flow with [futures]
- Let [tokio]'s event loop handle non-blocking I/O
- Use libraries built on [tokio] that implement the protocols you need
Parallel processing
- Use [rayon] to make your iterators use all CPU cores
- Use [crossbeam]'s scoped threads to manually execute things in parallel
Data structures
- Use [crossbeam]'s data lock-free data structures if you need to access data from multiple threads
[futures]: https://crates.io/crates/futures
[tokio]: https://tokio.rs
[rayon]: https://crates.io/crates/rayon
[crossbeam]: https://crates.io/crates/crossbeam
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