Subject: Re: [boost] Common future base class (was Re: Boost.Fibermini-review September 4-13)
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-07 19:25:53
On 8/09/2015 03:30, Nat Goodspeed wrote:
>>> Could you describe briefly what this example does? Is it just workers
>>> racing (in the good sense) to satisfy the promise? Or does serialization
>>> of set_xxx calls matter?
>
>> It's just workers racing to satisfy the promise. The first one to do so
>> sets the value, the rest get an exception.
>
> Seems like that could be the basis for a nice when_any?
Races to get exceptions in the common case does not satisfy any meaning
of the word "nice".