Re: [boost] [futures] boost::futures

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-09 19:00:34

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Peter Dimov

> Indeed, the intent has been for futures to support arbitrary 
> asynchronous 
> task execution, not just the simple thread per task model. 
> One could imagine 
> using futures over an interprocess protocol or TCP/IP.
> 
> My current proposal for std::future<R> is available at
> 
> http://www.pdimov.com/cpp/N2185.html

May I ask why you saw it necessary to have std::fork in that
incarnation? Won't you /always/ do the same thing?

I'm not sure why we couldn't have it be implied that construction of a
future implies "fork".

Thanks,

Sohail