Re: [boost] [defer/thread_pool] - added again to boost vault

From: Michael Marcin (mmarcin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-16 22:10:20

Simon Meiklejohn wrote:
> <Oliver.Kowalke <at> qimonda.com> writes:
>> Hmm - I would find it useful if defer_point::defer would return an
>> future which could be used to transfer results and/or exceptions
>> back to the caller.
> 
> Yes, that would be very useful. Do you have some code to do that?
> Should we use code from the existing futures library in the vault?
> I haven't looked at the asio code for a while. Does it offer futures?
> 

What about the Boost.Act SoC project?  
It's supposed to use "actions" instead of futures but they look to be a 
superset of futures anyways.

IIRC SoC is comming to an end so hopefully we will see something soon.
I know I've been waiting to play with it since I read about it.