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Rust Standard Library Cookbook
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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

by Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
6h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with Futures

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Providing futures with a CPU pool and waiting for them
  • Implementing error handling for futures
  • Combining futures
  • Using Streams
  • Using Sinks
  • Using the oneshot channel
  • Returning futures
  • Locking resources with BiLocks

Introduction

Futures provide the building blocks for asynchronous computations with zero-cost abstraction. Asynchronous communication is useful for handling timeouts, computing across thread pools, network responses, and any function that does not immediately return a value.

In a synchronous block, the computer would execute each command sequentially after waiting for each command to return a value. If you were to apply the synchronous model when sending ...

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