This is the new way to refer to tasks in rust-land. Currently all they
do is serve as a key to look up the old rust_task structure. Ideally
they won't be ref counted, but baby steps.
getenv is not threadsafe and (maybe as a result) it's randomly crashing with
CFLAGS=-g and RUST_THREADS=32. Calls from rust code are still on their
own.
Tasks are spawned on a random thread. Currently they stay there, but
we should add task migration and load balancing in the future. This
should drammatically improve our task performance benchmarks.
On gcc 4.5.1 (fedora 14 i686) rust_test_runtime.cpp fails to compile
with the following error:
rt/test/rust_test_runtime.cpp:57:61: error: passing NULL to non-pointer argument 3 of ‘void rust_task::start(uintptr_t, uintptr_t, uintptr_t, size_t)’
The explicit cast works around the error.
