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Does that mean every task will be an OS thread? Or are tasks handled by a runtime specific scheduler and will use a pool of threads for IO?



> Does that mean every task will be an OS thread?

By default, yes.


Hmmmm, I hope there are other alternatives in the future (besides libuv). It would be nice to see Rust have a lightweight unit of execution similar to goroutines or Erlang processes.




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