bevy/crates/bevy_tasks
Zachary Harrold c6204279eb
Support for non-browser wasm (#17499)
# Objective

- Contributes to #15460
- Supersedes #8520
- Fixes #4906

## Solution

- Added a new `web` feature to `bevy`, and several of its crates.
- Enabled new `web` feature automatically within crates without `no_std`
support.

## Testing

- `cargo build --no-default-features --target wasm32v1-none`

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## Migration Guide

When using Bevy crates which _don't_ automatically enable the `web`
feature, please enable it when building for the browser.

## Notes

- I added [`cfg_if`](https://crates.io/crates/cfg-if) to help manage
some of the feature gate gore that this extra feature introduces. It's
still pretty ugly, but I think much easier to read.
- Certain `wasm` targets (e.g.,
[wasm32-wasip1](https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support/wasm32-wasip1.html#wasm32-wasip1))
provide an incomplete implementation for `std`. I have not tested these
platforms, but I suspect Bevy's liberal use of usually unsupported
features (e.g., threading) will cause these targets to fail. As such,
consider `wasm32-unknown-unknown` as the only `wasm` platform with
support from Bevy for `std`. All others likely will need to be treated
as `no_std` platforms.
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LICENSE-APACHE Cleanup publish process (#17728) 2025-02-09 17:46:19 +00:00
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README.md Add no_std support to bevy (#17955) 2025-03-07 03:39:46 +00:00

Bevy Tasks

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A refreshingly simple task executor for bevy. :)

This is a simple threadpool with minimal dependencies. The main usecase is a scoped fork-join, i.e. spawning tasks from a single thread and having that thread await the completion of those tasks. This is intended specifically for bevy as a lighter alternative to rayon for this specific usecase. There are also utilities for generating the tasks from a slice of data. This library is intended for games and makes no attempt to ensure fairness or ordering of spawned tasks.

It is based on async-executor, a lightweight executor that allows the end user to manage their own threads. async-executor is based on async-task, a core piece of async-std.

Usage

In order to be able to optimize task execution in multi-threaded environments, bevy provides three different thread pools via which tasks of different kinds can be spawned. (The same API is used in single-threaded environments, even if execution is limited to a single thread. This currently applies to Wasm targets.) The determining factor for what kind of work should go in each pool is latency requirements:

  • For CPU-intensive work (tasks that generally spin until completion) we have a standard [ComputeTaskPool] and an [AsyncComputeTaskPool]. Work that does not need to be completed to present the next frame should go to the [AsyncComputeTaskPool].

  • For IO-intensive work (tasks that spend very little time in a "woken" state) we have an [IoTaskPool] whose tasks are expected to complete very quickly. Generally speaking, they should just await receiving data from somewhere (i.e. disk) and signal other systems when the data is ready for consumption. (likely via channels)

no_std Support

To enable no_std support in this crate, you will need to disable default features, and enable the edge_executor and critical-section features.