3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Sean McArthur
beb639a030 sync: fix warnings in benches and tests (#912) 2019-02-20 14:07:53 -08:00
Sean McArthur
f9345f99bb sync: drop old tasks in oneshot (#911) 2019-02-20 12:50:29 -08:00
Carl Lerche
13083153aa
Introduce tokio-sync crate containing synchronization primitives. (#839)
Introduce a tokio-sync crate containing useful synchronization primitives for programs
written using Tokio.

The initial release contains:

* An mpsc channel
* A oneshot channel
* A semaphore implementation
* An `AtomicTask` primitive.

The `oneshot` and `mpsc` channels are new implementations providing improved
performance characteristics. In some benchmarks, the new mpsc channel shows
up to 7x improvement over the version provided by the `futures` crate. Unfortunately,
the `oneshot` implementation only provides a slight performance improvement as it
is mostly limited by the `futures` 0.1 task system. Once updated to the `std` version
of `Future` (currently nightly only), much greater performance improvements should
be achievable by `oneshot`.

Additionally, he implementations provided here are checked using
[Loom](http://github.com/carllerche/loom/), which provides greater confidence of
correctness.
2019-01-22 11:37:26 -08:00