[boost] [defer] - comments?

From: simon meiklejohn (simon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-27 18:32:45

Anyone had a play with the defer library in the vault and want to comment on 
its usefulness?

It clearly shares much in common with the asio Dispatcher concept but with 
the freedom to define more general Dispatchers. (e.g. 'Create thread per 
callback' and 'Dispatch Callback via Message Pump', both of which violate 
the specific guarantees of the asio Dispatcher concept, that the callback 
occur in a thread that has called asio::demuxer::run().)

One potential application for defer would be in conjunction with asio, 
creating the thread(s) which call demuxer::run() in a succinct form.

Cheers

Simon