[fpc-devel] C++ gets language-internal concurrency support

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Michael Schnell said:
> Some c++11 code doing parallel execution:
> 
> *
>      	void f(vector<double>&);
> 
> 	struct F {
> 		vector<double>&  v;
> 		F(vector<double>&  vv) :v{vv} { }
> 		void operator()();
> 	};
> 
> 	int main()
> 	{
> 		std::thread t1{std::bind(f,some_vec)};	//*f(some_vec) executes in separate thread*
> 		std::thread t2{F(some_vec)};		//*F(some_vec)() executes in separate thread*
> 
> 		t1.join();
> 		t2.join();
> 	}

I'm no C++ expert, but:

Where is the parallel aspect? It looks more like a shorthand to spawn a
thread to evaluate an expression/closure/function call, and then wait on it
using .join().  

The "closure"-like aspect (be able to pass expressions to be evaluated
somewhere else) looks like a bigger feature then that threads are now
grouped under namespace std.

I'm note sure we are actually witnessing something like the parallel for you
talked about earlier?  Are you sure?