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Smol is a lightweight Rust asynchronous runtime and task executor. It provides a suite of foundational tools for scheduling and executing asynchronous futures, managing background workloads, and handling non-blocking network and file operations.

The project includes a compatibility layer for adapting asynchronous types and execution contexts, enabling futures to run across different runtime ecosystems. It also features a mechanism to offload synchronous I/O and CPU-intensive operations to dedicated worker thread pools to prevent runtime stalls.

Its capabilities cover non-blocking network I/O for TCP, UDP, and Unix connections, as well as asynchronous filesystem operations and system process management. For coordinating shared state, it provides a suite of concurrency primitives including asynchronous mutexes, semaphores, and channels. Additional functionality includes timed event scheduling for delayed or recurring tasks.

Features

Async I/O Runtimes - Acts as a lightweight async runtime providing the core event loop and task scheduler for Rust applications.
Blocking Task Offloaders - Provides mechanisms to offload synchronous CPU-intensive tasks to dedicated thread pools.
Waker-Based Schedulers - Implements a task executor that manages future progression using the standard library waker mechanism.
Non-Blocking Socket I/O - Ships non-blocking socket I/O for handling multiple TCP and UDP streams asynchronously.

Features

Async I/O Runtimes - Acts as a lightweight async runtime providing the core event loop and task scheduler for Rust applications.
Blocking Task Offloaders - Provides mechanisms to offload synchronous CPU-intensive tasks to dedicated thread pools.
Waker-Based Schedulers - Implements a task executor that manages future progression using the standard library waker mechanism.
Non-Blocking Socket I/O - Ships non-blocking socket I/O for handling multiple TCP and UDP streams asynchronously.