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How would you design a production-grade Rust async runtime with work-stealing, reactor, and scheduler separation?
Updated May 24, 2026
Short answer
A scalable runtime separates executor, reactor, and scheduler with work-stealing queues and Waker-driven task resumption.
Deep explanation
Workers maintain local deques for cache locality. Idle workers steal tasks to balance load. The reactor integrates OS event polling (epoll/kqueue/IOCP). Waker bridges I/O completion and task rescheduling. This avoids global locks and ensures scalability under high concurrency.
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