The Future is Now
January 21st, 2007 | by Aldacron |Kevin Bealer has put together a project called Futurism over at DSource. If you’ve done a deal of multithreaded programming in different langauges or have read up on multithreaded techniques, you will likely have stumbled across “futures” at one point or another. Different implementations allow for different degrees of functionality, but the core of the concept is that when a return value is expected from an asynchronous operation, a future can be used to store its result. Futurism is an implementation of futures for D. Questions and comments should be directed to the project forums.
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