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littlestymaar on Nov 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A four year plan for async Rust

Only for file access, which wasn't supported by async on Linux until io-uring.

nextaccountic on Nov 8, 2023 [–]

No, any spawn_blocking will run on its own dedicated thread

littlestymaar on Nov 9, 2023 | [–]

I missread the comment above and read `async` instead of `sync`, my bad.

(Your response isn't entirely accurate though: it's using a thread pool whose size is configurable, not one thread per spaw_blocking)

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