This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs”, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: When designing concurrent APIs, separate "what" from "how" Let’s say you have an existing synchronous API function [called DoSomething]… Because DoSomething could take a long time to execute (whether it keeps a CPU core busy [...]
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Effective Concurrency: Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs”
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Software Development on 2010-01-17 | 11 Comments »