See the thread on gcc-help: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2017-08/msg00045.html
On 19 August 2017 at 14:09, Ramón García <ramon.garci...@gmail.com> wrote: > ping. > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Ramón García <ramon.garci...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Please consider supporting the Coroutines TS in GNU C++. >> >> It is really important to make asynchronous programming usable. >> >> Modern programs should be scalable to use the performance of multicore >> processors. Stackless coroutines allow the programmer to scale to >> millions of asynchronous requests. But without the primitives in the >> Concurrency TS, chaining the result of an asynchronous computation to >> the next step, one must program a chain of callbacks. It becomes >> quickly unusable. >> >> The promise/future, as specified in the concurrency TS, (that is, with >> the function future::then for chaining a callback to the completion of >> the future) make asynchronous programming somewhat more usable. >> Unfortunately, almost no C++ library shipped supports future with >> then. >> >> This is an excellent explanation of the Coroutines TS: >> >> https://www.slideshare.net/SergeyPlatonov/gor-nishanov-c-coroutines-a-negative-overhead-abstraction >> >> Both Visual C++ 2017 and CLANG (SVN version) support the Coroutines >> TS. Please consider it. >> >> I saw that someone started an attempt at implementing it: >> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-03/msg00435.html but there >> were no replies.
