Using Senders/Receivers -- Lucian Radu Teodorescu

C++26 will introduce senders/receivers. Lucian Radu Teodorescu demonstrates how to use them to write multithreaded code.

Using Senders/Receivers

by Lucian Radu Teodorescu

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This is a follow-up to the article in the previous issue of Overload, which introduced the upcoming C++26 senders/receivers framework [WG21Exec]. While the previous article focused on presenting the main concepts and outlining what will be standardized, this article demonstrates how to use the framework to build concurrent applications.

The goal is to showcase examples that are closer to real-world software rather than minimal examples. We address three problems that can benefit from multi-threaded execution: computing the Mandelbrot fractal, performing a concurrent sort, and applying a graphical transformation to a set of images.

All the code examples are available on GitHub [ExamplesCode]. We use stdexec [stdexec], the reference implementation for the senders/receivers proposal. Additionally, some features included in the examples are not yet accepted by the standard committee, though we hope they will be soon.

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