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Subject: Re: [boost] [c++std-parallel-2020] Re: We need a coherent higher level parallelization story for C++ (was [thread] Is there a non-blocking future-destructor?)
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-14 10:57:38


Lawrence Crowl wrote:

> Third, extending the use of std::future beyond its design goals caused
> problems. You would expect this of any system used beyond its goals. In
> particular, using std::futures for anything other than std::async was a
> step too far.

This is absolutely backwards. Future was always intended to be used as a
generic future value. Hence the name, and the existence of 'promise'.
Extending it beyond these design goals in order to imbue it with a lifetime
management function caused the problems.


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