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Re: Job package: A lightweight multithreading tool, using promise/future mechanism [message #48751 is a reply to message #48750] Sun, 10 September 2017 15:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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BTW, as exercise:

#include <CtrlLib/CtrlLib.h>

#include <future>

using namespace Upp;

template< class Function, class... Args>
std::future<std::result_of_t<std::decay_t<Function>(std::decay_t<Args>...)>>
Async(Function&& f, Args&&... args )
{
	std::promise<std::result_of_t<std::decay_t<Function>(std::decay_t<Args>...)>> p;
	auto ftr = p.get_future();
	CoWork::Schedule([=, p = pick(p)]() mutable {
		p.set_value(f(args...));
	});
	return ftr;
}

GUI_APP_MAIN
{
	DDUMP(Async([] { return "Hello world"; }).get());
}


Still not sure about real world scenarion where I would prefer using future/promise over CoWork.

Maybe my problem with future/promise really is that fact that usually the "result" of async operation as a change in some data that gets into it as reference. future forces me to do a copy to store the function result.
 
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