I need some help about delaying a method from returning the answer, Asynchronous..

Hi
Thank you for reading my post.
I have an interface which has two method with several parameters and I should implement this method to complete a task, eg: calculating a series.

The tester program will load my "dynamic shared library" and call initialize method for calibration. then It create several threads to call the worker method named calcSeries(......) . each thread may call the method several times.

for example following 4 calls need to be issued by one of the above threads.

1-calcSeries(1,5,7,2)
2-calcSeries(3,9,2,1)
3-calcSeries(3,7,9,2)
4-calcSeries(5,4,8,6)

Is it possible to return the result asynchronously ?
for example I get all calls and then return the result when I complete them?
Maybe 4th call complete before other ones.


Thanks.

A normal function has to return a result synchronously. If you want asynchronous results, you have to look into alternatives to normal return values, such as futures. Google them.

It's possible. Why do you want an asynchronous API? Why not just make calcSeries() a synchronous call then the caller can put the call in a separate thread if they want.

gg