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		randyrand on Oct 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Async Rust? another async approach that i don’t see mentioned often is what apple chose with Grand Central Dispatch i.e pre allocated worker threads and work queues perhaps all we needed was some nice semantics around that

yencabulator on Oct 16, 2023 [–]

See glommio and tokio-uring. Unfortunately not stable, not polished at all, and receiving a fraction of the attention the main Tokio API is getting.

The biggest pain coming up is how io_uring changes the shape of the read/write APIs everywhere :-/

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-glomm... https://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-ap... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25220892 https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/k16j6x/modern_storage... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k0yyk7/modern_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgTyCSDPrs

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-uring/

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