Is it a thread execution for future promise

Question

Hi

Refer code having future and promise. Is this code a multithreaded ?

When thread will execute the function in different thread ?

The line when Getvalue is called from main thread ? If so, isn't this single thread ?

Or

Line where get() on future is called.
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Answer 1

Yes, using std::future and std::promise in C++ can be part of multithreaded code, but they don’t create threads on their own.
• If you’re using std::async(...), then a new thread may be created depending on the policy (std::launch::async or deferred).
• If you’re using std::promise and manually setting the value in another thread, then you are responsible for creating the thread using std::thread.

Example:

std::promise<int> p;
std::future<int> f = p.get_future();

std::thread t([&p]() {
p.set_value(42); // this runs in a separate thread
});

int value = f.get(); // blocks in main thread until value is set
t.join();

Here:
• The set_value is run in a separate thread.