macro_rules! join { (@ { // One `_` for each branch in the `join!` macro. This is not used once // normalization is complete. ( $($count:tt)* ) // The expression `0+1+1+ ... +1` equal to the number of branches. ( $($total:tt)* ) // Normalized join! branches $( ( $($skip:tt)* ) $e:expr, )* }) => { ... }; (@ { ( $($s:tt)* ) ( $($n:tt)* ) $($t:tt)* } $e:expr, $($r:tt)* ) => { ... }; ( $($e:expr),* $(,)?) => { ... }; }
Expand description
Waits on multiple concurrent branches, returning when all branches complete.
The join!
macro must be used inside of async functions, closures, and
blocks.
The join!
macro takes a list of async expressions and evaluates them
concurrently on the same task. Each async expression evaluates to a future
and the futures from each expression are multiplexed on the current task.
When working with async expressions returning Result
, join!
will wait
for all branches complete regardless if any complete with Err
. Use
try_join!
to return early when Err
is encountered.
Notes
The supplied futures are stored inline and does not require allocating a
Vec
.
Runtime characteristics
By running all async expressions on the current task, the expressions are
able to run concurrently but not in parallel. This means all
expressions are run on the same thread and if one branch blocks the thread,
all other expressions will be unable to continue. If parallelism is
required, spawn each async expression using tokio::spawn
and pass the
join handle to join!
.
Examples
Basic join with two branches
async fn do_stuff_async() {
// async work
}
async fn more_async_work() {
// more here
}
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
let (first, second) = tokio::join!(
do_stuff_async(),
more_async_work());
// do something with the values
}