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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Asio] defer, dispatch and post differences?
From: Francesco Giacomini (francesco.giacomini_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-08 13:40:43

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 05:46:21AM +0100, Daniel Bergström via Boost-users 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). I also couldn't find anything on the subject in the *Overview* section
> of the library's documentation.
>
> Is the differences between them clearly described somewhere else, that I've
> missed, or could someone explain it?

I found the following presentation

https://chriskohlhoff.github.io/executors/

useful. Dispatch, post and defer are specifically described in slides
15 to 18.

F.