Tokio's zero-cost abstractions give you bare-metal performance.
Tokio makes it easy to implement protocols and program asynchronously.
Tokio leverages Rust's ownership and concurrency model to ensure thread safety.
Tokio has a minimal footprint, and handles backpressure and cancellation naturally.
// A tiny async echo server with tokio-core
extern crate futures;
extern crate tokio_core;
extern crate tokio_io;
use futures::{Future, Stream};
use tokio_io::{io, AsyncRead};
use tokio_core::net::TcpListener;
use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
fn main() {
// Create the event loop that will drive this server
let mut core = Core::new().unwrap();
let handle = core.handle();
// Bind the server's socket
let addr = "127.0.0.1:12345".parse().unwrap();
let tcp = TcpListener::bind(&addr, &handle).unwrap();
// Iterate incoming connections
let server = tcp.incoming().for_each(|(tcp, _)| {
// Split up the read and write halves
let (reader, writer) = tcp.split();
// Future of the copy
let bytes_copied = io::copy(reader, writer);
// ... after which we'll print what happened
let handle_conn = bytes_copied.map(|(n, _, _)| {
println!("wrote {} bytes", n)
}).map_err(|err| {
println!("IO error {:?}", err)
});
// Spawn the future as a concurrent task
handle.spawn(handle_conn);
Ok(())
});
// Spin up the server on the event loop
core.run(server).unwrap();
}