Summary
This episode provides a quick introduction to C++11's std::future and std::async capabilities for multithreaded programming. Jason demonstrates how to easily run functions asynchronously, comparing the performance of sequential versus parallel execution using a random number generation example. The episode highlights how std::async automatically manages thread creation and synchronization, returning a std::future object that holds the eventual result of the asynchronous operation, which can be retrieved with the get() method when needed.
Related C++ Standard Sections
This episode covers topics found in these sections of the C++ standard:
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[futures.async]77% match -
[thread.thread.constr]57% match -
[future.syn]40% match -
[futures.unique.future]40% match