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		zanny on March 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Announcing the tokio-io Crate Tokio is "do that network transfer or disk read without freezing the program". Except that takes a specific tokio package for each operation rather than being a kitchen sink of everything in one crate.

infogulch on March 18, 2017 [–]

Oh so tokio is just the generic interface for any "do thing x without freezing", where the actual x comes from whatever implementation you include.

simcop2387 on March 18, 2017 | [–]

That's my understanding. It's a generic framework/interface for doing any kind of IO task without freezing the program.

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