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In this lesson, we will look into the use of std::promise and std::future in the scope of concurrency in C++.

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Example 1

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// promiseFuture.cpp
#include <future>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <utility>
void product(std::promise<int>&& intPromise, int a, int b){
intPromise.set_value(a*b);
}
struct Div{
void operator() (std::promise<int>&& intPromise, int a, int b) const {
intPromise.set_value(a/b);
}
};
int main(){
int a= 20;
int b= 10;
std::cout << std::endl;
// define the promises
std::promise<int> prodPromise;
std::promise<int> divPromise;
// get the futures
std::future<int> prodResult= prodPromise.get_future();
std::future<int> divResult= divPromise.get_future();
// calculate the result in a separat thread
std::thread prodThread(product,std::move(prodPromise),a,b);
Div div;
std::thread divThread(div,std::move(divPromise),a,b);
// get the result
std::cout << "20*10= " << prodResult.get() << std::endl;
std::cout << "20/10= " << divResult.get() << std::endl;
prodThread.join();
divThread.join();
std::cout << std::endl;
}

Explanation

  • Thread prodThread (line 36) gets the function product (lines 8 -10), the prodPromise (line 32,) and the numbers a and b.

  • To ...

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