bevy/crates/bevy_tasks
Wybe Westra abf12f3b3b
Fixed several missing links in docs. (#8117)
Links in the api docs are nice. I noticed that there were several places
where structs / functions and other things were referenced in the docs,
but weren't linked. I added the links where possible / logical.

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Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: François <mockersf@gmail.com>
2023-04-23 17:28:36 +00:00
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examples small and mostly pointless refactoring (#2934) 2022-02-13 22:33:55 +00:00
src Fixed several missing links in docs. (#8117) 2023-04-23 17:28:36 +00:00
Cargo.toml chore: Release (#7920) 2023-03-06 05:13:36 +00:00
README.md Cleanup of Markdown Files and add CI Checking (#1463) 2021-02-22 04:50:05 +00:00

bevy_tasks

A refreshingly simple task executor for bevy. :)

This is a simple threadpool with minimal dependencies. The main usecase is a scoped fork-join, i.e. spawning tasks from a single thread and having that thread await the completion of those tasks. This is intended specifically for bevy as a lighter alternative to rayon for this specific usecase. There are also utilities for generating the tasks from a slice of data. This library is intended for games and makes no attempt to ensure fairness or ordering of spawned tasks.

It is based on async-executor, a lightweight executor that allows the end user to manage their own threads. async-executor is based on async-task, a core piece of async-std.

Dependencies

A very small dependency list is a key feature of this module

├── async-executor
│   ├── async-task
│   ├── concurrent-queue
│   │   └── cache-padded
│   └── fastrand
├── num_cpus
│   └── libc
├── parking
└── futures-lite