I just started looking at the boost::futures zip file in the vault as well. I'd really like to use it for a current project if it is near maturity. Can I use it in conjunction with my own thread pool or with an active object? For example, I'd want something like: int f(); future<int> val = myThreadPool.queue<int>(f); val.ready() val.cancel() etc.. The documentation is incomplete except for the simple case, which appears to spawn a new thread for every new future? The ability to use a future with the asio::io_service in particular would be quite powerful. Thanks, Braddock Gaskill Dockside Vision Inc On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:11:56 -0800, Sohail Somani wrote:
I was looking at the futures implementation in the boost vault. It looks very promising, I must say. One of the open issues however is thread cancellation which I imagine will be important in the case of the "or" futures group.
Has there been any progress on this front? One of the coolest things about boost libraries has been the gradual improvement of legacy C/C++ code by non-invasive means. I can't imagine solving this problem without invasive means (or traditionally undesirable means, i.e. something like thread->die()). I'm not saying that its non-invasive or nothing, but there are people smarter than me working on this problem!
Thanks in advance,
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