I'd like to use PPL "when_all" on tasks with different types. And add a "then" call to that task.
But when_all returns task that takes a vector, so all elements have to be the same type. So how do I do this?
This is what I have come up with but it feels like a bit of a hack:
//3 different types:
int out1;
float out2;
char out3;
//Unfortunately I cant use tasks with return values as the types would be different ...
auto t1 = concurrency::create_task([&out1](){out1 = 1; }); //some expensive operation
auto t2 = concurrency::create_task([&out2](){out2 = 2; }); //some expensive operation
auto t3 = concurrency::create_task([&out3](){out3 = 3; }); //some expensive operation
auto t4 = (t1 && t2 && t3); //when_all doesnt block
auto t5 = t4.then([&out1, &out2, &out3](){
std::string ret = "out1: " + std::to_string(out1) + ", out2: " + std::to_string(out2) + ", out3: " + std::to_string(out3);
return ret;
});
auto str = t5.get();
std::cout << str << std::endl;
Anyone got a better idea?
(parallel_invoke blocks so I dont want to use that)
Task groups will work.
Failing that:
which doesn't work with
void
tasks, but otherwise bundles any set of tasks into a task of tuples.Getting
void
s to work is a bit more work. One way would be to write aget_safe
that returnsT
fortask<T>
andvoid_placeholder
fortask<void>
, then filter the resulting tuple before returning. Or write apartition_args
that splits args intotask<void>
andtask<T>
, and act differently on the two of them. Both are a bit of a headache. We could also do a tuple-append pattern (where we deal with the tasks one-at-a-time, and can either append aT
to thetuple
or do nothing forvoid
).It uses two C++14 library features (index_sequence and index_sequence_for) but both are easy to write in C++11 (2-4 lines each), and implementations are easy to find.
I forget if task is copyable, I assumed it was not in the above code. If it is copyable, a shorter version of the above code will work. Apologies for any typos.