Tokio spawn vs. select!

TL;DR;

• Tokio::spawn: new task, different threads, no borrowing.
• select!: same task/thread, borrowing.

Both tokio::spawn and select! enable running concurrent asynchronous operations. However, the strategy used to run concurrent operations differs. The tokio::spawn function takes an asynchronous operation and spawns a new task to run it. A task is the object that the Tokio runtime schedules. Two different tasks are scheduled independently by Tokio. They may run simultaneously on different operating system threads. Because of this, a spawned task has the same restriction as a spawned thread: no borrowing.

The select! macro runs all branches concurrently on the same task. Because all branches of the select! macro are executed on the same task, they will never run simultaneously. The select! macro multiplexes asynchronous operations on a single task.

Reference: Select