Aaron Turon

@Diggsey Thanks for clarifying. If adding a separate target that enables the syscall interface by default would be helpful, that's definitely doable. I do think we need to resolve the...

@vorner I think a good place to start here would be to prototype such an alternative back-end directly with futures. It's usually better to have a few different concrete instances...

cc https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-service/issues/4 -- if we resolve that we don't need this.

I wrote a script to gather data on several of the current benchmarks across a bunch of releases. Mock-up dashboard is [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U-Ha9STziL-7DhYj40TcP2JQ8So8ceqLaGC3FNI7Yb4/edit#gid=882131633). I'll be updating this soon to include the...

@nnethercote > Y-axis: > - Apparently it's a log scale. > - Linear would be better. Can you say why? I believe that @scottmcm proposed log scale to make it...

I think it's important that we provide *some* way to get an overview of the absolute times for these workflows, so that we can gauge the typical user experience in...

cc @nikomatsakis (and @alexcrichton, since this will prevent us from using this trick in futures for now).

cc @rust-lang-nursery/libs I'd like to merge this PR, any objections?

@withoutboats, can you merge and publish?

Thanks @Nemo157 for taking on this work! I *strongly* agree with your overall goals. I'd really like to see if we can somehow finagle `io::Error` to work in `core` as...