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Fixes #2566 Fixes #3005 There are only READMEs in the 4 crates here (with the exception of bevy itself). Those 4 crates are ecs, reflect, tasks, and transform. These should each now include their respective README files. Co-authored-by: Hoidigan <57080125+Hoidigan@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Nelsen <57080125+Hoidigan@users.noreply.github.com> |
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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