Streaming parsers in D a novel design
Sebastiaan Koppe
mail at skoppe.eu
Wed Apr 19 20:46:23 UTC 2023
On Wednesday, 19 April 2023 at 19:50:35 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
> Cancelation is trivial, you can break a fiber at any safe point
> (where it yields)
Interrupting a fiber and cancelling work aren't the same thing.
The latter might involve some cleanup, which itself might be
async.
Quote from Rust's wg-async
https://rust-lang.github.io/wg-async/vision/roadmap/scopes.html#cancellation:
> In today's Rust, any async function can be synchronously
> cancelled at any await point: the code simply stops executing,
> and destructors are run for any extant variables. This leads to
> a lot of bugs.
Also a blog post on uring and rust,
https://without.boats/blog/io-uring/
Suffice to say its tricky.
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