Dave Abrahams wrote: [...] > > 2) You're still hiding the thread creation. > > Absolutely. High-level vs. low-level.
Yeah ... > > > This is a mistake to me for > > two reasons. First, it's not as obvious that a thread is being created > > here (though the new names help a lot). > > Unimportant, IMO. Who cares how an async_call is implemented under the > covers? ... but to me, that "async_call"-thing is nothing but "a future" [one would also need an "executor" to make some use of it]. I can think of "a thread" as a sort of "executor" but not the other way around. http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrent/dist/docs/java/util/concurrent/Future.html http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrent/dist/docs/java/util/concurrent/Executor.html http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
