MIO ("metal input output")

[bluebird]

Is this the MIO that I keep hearing about, that the software is going to transition to? Looks interesting.

[polpolrene]

Here’s a presentation on that.

RustCamp 2015 - Writing High Performance Async IO Apps by Carl Lerche

[dirvine]

@bluebird

that the software is going to transition to?

Crust will use this. For now though only crust. It will provide a much better use of resources and let the OS do scheduling for us (kqueue / epoll etc.) and allow us to reduce thread count dramatically.