MIO - Metal IO
MIO is a lightweight IO library for Rust with a focus on adding as little overhead as possible over the OS abstractions.
Features
- Event loop backed by epoll, kqueue.
- Zero allocations at runtime
- Non-blocking TCP, UDP and Unix domain sockets
- High performance timer system
- Thread safe message channel for cross thread communication
Coming soon
- Signal handling
Non goals
The following are specifically omitted from MIO and are left to the user or higher level libraries.
- File operations
- Thread pools / multi-threaded event loop
Platforms
Currently, MIO only supports Linux and Darwin. However, Windows support will be coming soon. The goal is to support all platforms that Rust supports.