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Rename `std::thread::available_conccurrency` to `std::thread::available_parallelism`
_Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/74479_
This PR renames `std::thread::available_conccurrency` to `std::thread::available_parallelism`.
## Rationale
The API was initially named `std::thread::hardware_concurrency`, mirroring the [C++ API of the same name](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/thread/hardware_concurrency). We eventually decided to omit any reference to the word "hardware" after [this comment](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/74480#issuecomment-662045841). And so we ended up with `available_concurrency` instead.
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For a talk I was preparing this week I was reading through ["Understanding and expressing scalable concurrency" (A. Turon, 2013)](http://aturon.github.io/academic/turon-thesis.pdf), and the following passage stood out to me (emphasis mine):
> __Concurrency is a system-structuring mechanism.__ An interactive system that deals with disparate asynchronous events is naturally structured by division into concurrent threads with disparate responsibilities. Doing so creates a better fit between problem and solution, and can also decrease the average latency of the system by preventing long-running computations from obstructing quicker ones.
> __Parallelism is a resource.__ A given machine provides a certain capacity for parallelism, i.e., a bound on the number of computations it can perform simultaneously. The goal is to maximize throughput by intelligently using this resource. For interactive systems, parallelism can decrease latency as well.
_Chapter 2.1: Concurrency is not Parallelism. Page 30._
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_"Concurrency is a system-structuring mechanism. Parallelism is a resource."_ — It feels like this accurately captures the way we should be thinking about these APIs. What this API returns is not "the amount of concurrency available to the program" which is a property of the program, and thus even with just a single thread is effectively unbounded. But instead it returns "the amount of _parallelism_ available to the program", which is a resource hard-constrained by the machine's capacity (and can be further restricted by e.g. operating systems).
That's why I'd like to propose we rename this API from `available_concurrency` to `available_parallelism`. This still meets the criteria we previously established of not attempting to define what exactly we mean by "hardware", "threads", and other such words. Instead we only talk about "concurrency" as an abstract resource available to our program.
r? `@joshtriplett`
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Co-authored-by: Jonah Petri <jonah@petri.us>
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`std::thread::available_parallelism`
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Implement setting thread name for Fuchsia
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`weak!` is needed in a test in another module. With macros
1.0, importing `weak!` would require reordering module
declarations in `std/src/lib.rs`, which is a bit too
evil.
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Co-authored-by: Joshua Nelson <joshua@yottadb.com>
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Beginning with FreeBSD 10.4 and 11.1, there is one guard page by
default. And the stack autoresizes, so if Rust allocates its own guard
page, then FreeBSD's will simply move up one page. The best solution is
to just use the OS's guard page.
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Closes #81514
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Update thread and futex APIs to work with Emscripten
This updates the thread and futex APIs in `std` to match the APIs exposed by
Emscripten. This allows threads to run on `wasm32-unknown-emscripten` and the
thread parker to compile without errors related to the missing `futex` module.
To make use of this, Rust code must be compiled with `-C target-feature=atomics`
and Emscripten must link with `-pthread`.
I have confirmed this works well locally when building multithreaded crates.
Attempting to enable `std` thread tests currently fails for seemingly obscure
reasons and Emscripten is currently disabled in CI, so further work is needed to
have proper test coverage here.
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This updates the thread and futex APIs in `std` to match the APIs exposed by
Emscripten. This allows threads to run on `wasm32-unknown-emscripten` and the
thread parker to compile without errors related to the missing `futex` module.
To make use of this, Rust code must be compiled with `-C target-feature=atomics`
and Emscripten must link with `-pthread`.
I have confirmed this works well locally when building multithreaded crates.
Attempting to enable `std` thread tests currently fails for seemingly obscure
reasons and Emscripten is currently disabled in CI, so further work is needed to
have proper test coverage here.
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The calling convention of pthread_getattr_np() is to initialize the
pthread_attr_t, so _destroy() is only necessary on success (and _init()
isn't necessary beforehand). On the other hand, FreeBSD wants the
attr_t to be initialized before pthread_attr_get_np(), and therefore it
should always be destroyed afterwards.
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glibc destroys[1] the passed pthread_attr_t if pthread_getattr_np()
fails. Destroying it again leads to a segfault. Fix it by only
destroying it on success for glibc.
[1]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=nptl/pthread_getattr_np.c;h=ce437205e41dc05653e435f6188768cccdd91c99;hb=HEAD#l205
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