Hi Dave, On 10/18/06, David Greene <greened@obbligato.org> wrote:
Dean Michael Berris wrote:
need asynchronous method invocation, and I understand that Futures are being proposed for C++0x.
Is there a paper on this somewhere? It's the first I've heard of it. I'm very interested in futures and some of the proposed DARPA HPCS languages have them. It would be nice if these things worked similarly.
I think Peter's links show a concrete implementation of futures. I got a lot of the ideas though from a presentation by Herb Sutter on the Concur Project and his recorded presentation (available on Google Video) here: http://tinyurl.com/j68m8 . There's a paper by Doug Schmidt and Greg Lavender [ http://tinyurl.com/yhrw9a ] on the Active Object Pattern -- which IIRC is already available in the ACE framework. HTH -- Dean Michael C. Berris C++ Software Architect Orange and Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. web: http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ email: dean@orangeandbronze.com mobile: +63 928 7291459 phone: +63 2 8943415 other: +1 408 4049532 blogs: http://mikhailberis.blogspot.com http://3w-agility.blogspot.com http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com