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Modular Responsiveness Verification of Rust Async Runtimes

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Yanze Li, Ivan Beschastnikh, Alexander J. Summers

Programming Languages · Submitted 6 Oct 2026

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The authors' main claim We present a lightweight and modular proof technique for verifying eventual progression guarantees for Rust async runtimes.

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CitationAlexander J. Summers, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yanze Li. "Modular Responsiveness Verification of Rust Async Runtimes." arXiv:2610.09198 (2026). https://pith.science/paper/V7BAGGVJ
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Asynchronous (async) programming is a popular paradigm for managing concurrency. Languages that provide async support typically have a runtime to manage asynchronous executions. These runtimes are critical infrastructure, yet verifying them has received little attention. One reason is that a property that users care most about from an async runtime is a liveness property: tasks submitted to the runtime eventually make progress. Verifying liveness is challenging for libraries that are both concurrent and highly optimized. We present a lightweight and modular proof technique for verifying eventual progression guarantees for Rust async runtimes. We describe this technique in the context of a simple language based on Rust and Rust's async model. We then realize this proof technique as a set of static analyses for Rust and use these to verify eventual progression of several key components of multiple Rust async runtime implementations.

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s2 These runtimes are critical infrastructure, yet verifying them has received little attention. gap 0.92 0.08 0.03 asserted 1.00
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s7 We then realize this proof technique as a set of static analyses for Rust and use these to verify eventual progression of several key components of multiple Rust async runtime implementations. contribution 0.68 0.96 0.43 asserted 1.00

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Asynchronous (async) programming is a popular paradigm for managing concurrency. Languages that provide async support typically have a runtime to manage asynchronous executions. These runtimes are critical infrastructure, yet verifying them has received little attention. One reason is that a property that users care most about from an async runtime is a liveness property: tasks submitted to the runtime eventually make progress. Verifying liveness is challenging for libraries that are both concurrent and highly optimized. We present a lightweight and modular proof technique for verifying eventual progression guarantees for Rust async runtimes. We describe this technique in the context of a simple language based on Rust and Rust's async model. We then realize this proof technique as a set of static analyses for Rust and use these to verify eventual progression of several key components of multiple Rust async runtime implementations.

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