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.
Carl Lerche