[cpp-threads] Asynchronous Function Proposal

[k-oli at gmx.de]

Am Montag 01 Juni 2009 00:59:07 schrieb Lawrence Crowl:
> Please take a look at the attacked draft proposal for the async
> function.  Comments are encouraged.

Hello,
because boost.task was mentioned in Lawrence's draft I'd like to tell you that 
the code is available from boost vault (http://www.boostpro.com/vault/  -> 
section 'Concurrent Programming ') or boost sandbox 
(https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/task/).

The library implements some of the proposals made in this mailing list.
Instead of using enums function async() takes two arguments - an async 
executor (function object) and a task (a callable with an idenitifer).

Boost.Task provides own_thread, new_thread, default_pool and as_sub_task. The 
user could also apply it sown async- executor (for instance a custom thread-
pool with priority scheduling).

Maybe the proposed library can help to evaluate the interface in this context 
for C++-0x.

best regards,
Oliver