Re-export it inside the tokio::runtime::current_thread, as the original
place (tokio::executor::current_thread) is hidden from documentation and
users need some way to spawn non-Send futures.
The futures 0.2 crate is not intended for widespread usage. Also, the
futures team is exploring the compat shim route.
If futures 0.3 support is added to Tokio 0.1, then a different
integration route will be explored, making the current code unhelpful.
* Normalize links to docs.rs/CRATE/M.N/...
docs.rs is smart enough to show docs for the latest M.N.P release when
M.N is used in the link. For example:
https://docs.rs/mio/0.6/mio/struct.Poll.html
..will show mio 0.6.14 and later docs. While using the `M.N.*`
(ASTERISK) syntax also works, `M.N` is the more common usage, so
standarize a few existing links to that format.
* Fix missing or malformed rustdoc links
* executor lib rustdoc minor format change
* Promote tokio-threadpool crate level comments to rustdoc
* Replace hidden tokio::executor::thread_pool docs with deprecation note
* Fix typo/simplify util module rustdoc
* Reuse some tokio::executor::thread_pool rustdoc for the crate
Relates to #421
Currently, the timer uses a `Now` trait to abstract the source of time.
This allows time to be mocked out. However, the current implementation
has a number of limitations as represented by #288 and #296.
The main issues are that `Now` requires `&mut self` which prevents a
value from being easily used in a concurrent environment. Also, when
wanting to write code that is abstract over the source of time, generics
get out of hand.
This patch provides an alternate solution. A new type, `Clock` is
provided which defaults to `Instant::now` as the source of time, but
allows configuring the actual source using a new iteration of the `Now`
trait. This time, `Now` is `Send + Sync + 'static`. Internally, `Clock`
stores the now value in an `Arc<Now>` value, which introduces dynamism
and allows `Clock` values to be cloned and be `Sync`.
Also, the current clock can be set for the current execution context
using the `with_default` pattern.
Because using the `Instant::now` will be the most common case by far, it
is special cased in order to avoid the need to allocate an `Arc` and use
dynamic dispatch.
This patch introduces a version of `Runtime` that runs all components on
the current thread. This allows users to spawn futures that do not implement
`Send`.
This patch integrate the new timer implementation with the runtime by
initializing a timer per worker thread. This allows minimizing the
amount of synchronization needed for using timers.
