Remo Senekowitsch 91fd773859
Change story of exercise async1
- Remove confusing use of atomics. Use return values of async tasks
  instead, to ensure all tasks are awaited.
- Remove use of `println!()`, which uses a global lock and cannot be
  executed in parallel.
2026-04-25 15:33:53 +02:00

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Rust

// Alice is an elementary school teacher who needs to calculate the mean test
// score for three classes she teaches. Instead of calculating them one after
// the other, she decides to ask her friends Bob and Catherine for help. Working
// together, they can finish the job much faster.
//
// Let's simulate this using asynchronous programming. Each person is
// represented as an asynchronous task, which can be executed concurrently (i.e.
// they can be doing the calculations at the same time).
fn main() {
// Async tasks need to be executed by a "runtime", which is not provided by
// Rust's standard library. Here, we use the mainstream runtime `tokio`.
let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
.build()
.unwrap();
let scores_class_a = &[83, 77, 92];
let scores_class_b = &[84, 88, 96];
let scores_class_c = &[71, 83, 76];
let alice = rt.spawn(calculate_mean_score(scores_class_a));
let bob = rt.spawn(calculate_mean_score(scores_class_b));
let catherine = rt.spawn(calculate_mean_score(scores_class_c));
// Block the runtime on a task that awaits all three calculations.
let [mean_score_a, mean_score_b, mean_score_c]: [usize; _] = rt.block_on(async {
[
alice.await.unwrap(),
bob.await.unwrap(),
catherine.await.unwrap(),
]
});
assert_eq!(mean_score_a, 84);
assert_eq!(mean_score_b, 89);
assert_eq!(mean_score_c, 76);
}
async fn calculate_mean_score(score_list: &[usize]) -> usize {
let score_sum: usize = score_list.iter().sum();
score_sum / score_list.len()
}