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Document number: N3562

Date: 2013-03-15

Executors and schedulers, revision 1

by Matt Austern, Lawrence Crowl, Chandler Carruth, Niklas Gustafsson, Chris Mysen, Jeffrey Yasskin

Excerpt:

This paper is a proposal for executors, objects that can execute units of work packaged as function objects, in the form of an abstract base class and several concrete classes that inherit from it. It is based on components that are heavily used in internal Google and Microsoft code, with changes to better match the style of the C++ standard.

This proposal discusses the design decisions behind the API and also includes a first draft of formal wording for the working paper.