Something weird occurs in the middle of life. Looks merging into faces seen in shop windows. Faces with moulds that tell stories you hadn’t planned. Clock tower bells echo in the early mornings. Looks ...
The class template std::future provides a mechanism to access the result of asynchronous operations: An asynchronous operation (performed via std::async, std::packaged_task, or std::promise) can provide a std::future object to the creator of that asynchronous operation. The creator of the asynchronous operation can then use a variety of methods to query, wait for, or extract a value from the ...
If the future is the result of a call to std::async that used lazy evaluation, this function returns immediately without waiting. This function may block for longer than timeout_duration due to scheduling or resource contention delays. The standard recommends that a steady clock is used to measure the duration.
Checks if the future refers to a shared state. This is the case only for futures that were not default-constructed or moved from (i.e. returned by std::promise::get_future (), std::packaged_task::get_future () or std::async ()) until the first time get () or share () is called. The behavior is undefined if any member function other than the destructor, the move-assignment operator, or valid is ...
A std::future