Lib.rs

taski

TODO

• allow users to specify custom colors

• support dynamic arguments too

• add examples of competitor libs

• add embedme

• add documentation

• add one more example

• improve the layout library using plotters

• NO: add a builder for the scheduler

• NO: add a schedule trait

• DONE: add more tests for different policies: fifo, priority, custom

• DONE: use logging

• DONE: remove the trace mutex? should not be required

• DONE: add support for async closures / functions

• DONE: use petgraph for the graph representation

Design decisions

• task node is internal, because this is where the state is kept (interior mutability) and where the unique index is assigned to
  • construction from the user not possible
  • only possible to creatge using add_task
  • only valid input as dependency (we know it was added (otherwise we do)) and we know it cannot have circles
  • user cannot run any methods on it? wrong because of task trait
• use a result type, to allow for fail fast strategies
  • user workaround: use infallible and propagate an Option
• clone outputs as inputs, this is more efficient for small data such as i32
  • for large data (or data that cannot be cloned), just return an Arc

Development

cargo install cargo-expand
cargo expand ::task

There exist many different task scheduler implementations, the goals of this implementation are as follows:

• support async tasks
• support directed acyclic graphs with cycle detection
• allow custom scheduling policies based on a custom ID type, which could enforce complex constraints by using labels
• allow concurrent adding of tasks while the scheduler is executing, so that tasks can be streamed into the scheduler