Tokio with Carl Lerche
Rustacean Station
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The Differences Between Green Threads and Async Rust
With Async Rust, you have the concept of a task and that is similar in idea to a thread or to a co-routine. But with Async await, you can write your logic in a like step-by-step one like kind of way. The compiler at compile time it will take that kind of almost synchronous logic and rewrite it to be a state machine. Like once it's compiled to the state machine, then Tokyo or any other AC runtime can take all of these tasks and the scheduler can execute them on a single thread.
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