Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Asio] defer, dispatch and post differences?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Asio] defer, dispatch and post differences?
From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-05 09:10:33

*post* used to cause the handler to be executed some time in the future on
a thread associated with the executor. It was guaranteed not to happen
immediately.
*dispatch* used to:
  a. if called by a thread currently associated with the executor, cause
the handler to happen now.
  b. otherwise behave as per post.

Has this really changed, or does the documentation have an error?

On 5 January 2018 at 08:45, Vinnie Falco via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 8:46 PM, Daniel Bergström via Boost-users
> <boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > The free functions defer, dispatch and post all have the exact same set
> of
> > overloads and description in the library's reference (version 1.66.0).
>
> My understanding is that the post and defer functions replace the old
> asio_handler_is_continuation mechanism. See:
>
> <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/doc/html/boost_asio/net_ts.html>
>
> Thanks
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