Re: [boost] [futures] Request for Comments

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-17 10:53:56

Thorsten Schuett wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 16:06, Martin Wille wrote:

>>I think that would be viable. Another approach would be to pass a
>>combiner (similar to what Boost.Signals does) and to use
>>optional<whatever> as return types.

optional<> would be insufficient if we don't have only success/failure 
but some quality indicator. We could return a result if one of the 
futures returns a result with quality == "best". Otherwise, we have to 
wait until all the futures involved have returned a result.

(Something like that would be useful for running several heuristic 
algorithms in parallel with a suitable definition of "best")

Regards,
m
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