What this repo is about

[MikeGrier]

The name of the repo is a bit off at this point, I may change that.

One of my bugaboos has been the fact that the Rust ecosystem is not friendly to one of the Windows norms: no extra threads when idle.

The Windows threadpool facility has gone to extreme lengths over the years to enable this paradigm, and for 95% of applications, it's a great boon.

This repository was born out of me writing, repeatedly, memory safe wrappers around the use of the Win32 threadpool.

One of my other big issues has been efficient I/O in the form of the Windows IoRing support and then you can't just put that out there without considering how durability, buffers, and then how the work to fill them gets there.

So now the repository has grown some capabilities around:

• An epoch oriented view of durability governing IoRing based I/O to files
• Remoting Win32 file namespace operations off of a thread so that they're "almost asynchronous!"
• Your favorite rings and queues with Win32 Event based HANDLE based blocking so that the kernel scheduler is appropriately involved
• A crate to construct a model of the NUMA and cache topology of the system so that you can construct efficient spsc/mpsc queues in an almost "Seastar" like manner

This work is all privately done and self-funded so be kind. I'm just kind of a nerd who loves this stuff.