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Does this mean that Rust's Future trait is incorrectly named? Or at least not named according to the academic use of the word? Of course because Rust's runtime
by tinco 6y ago
Does this mean that Rust's Future trait is incorrectly named? Or at least not named according to the academic use of the word?
Of course because Rust's runtime or lack thereof aims to be zero overhead a Future could never be without the poll function.. right? You need a runtime to make regular functions accept these magic opaque future values.
- chrisseaton 6y agoYes not named according to the original paper. Yes it requires some kind of special compiler or runtime support.