page = arthur o'dwyer – stuff mostly about c++

url = https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog analysed @ 2021-09-30 20:15 UTC

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In my CppCon 2015 talk “Futures from Scratch,” I mentioned in passing that std::experimental::when_any , when given an empty list of futures, returns a ready future, instead of blocking forever (which would be the mathematically correct result, I said). This morning a YouTube commenter said, well, it isn’t that weird, because the condition “ any single future is ready” is in some sense a “weaker” condition than “ all of the futures are ready.” This reminded me of a Wizard of Id comic from my youth: