CppCon 2016: John Bandela “Channels - An alternative to callbacks and futures“

— Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: — Currently in the C Networking TS and Concurrency TS, callbacks and futures are the means for communicating an asynchronous value. However, there are disadvantages with both. Callbacks are low overhead, but hard to compose. Futures are easy to compose, but have increased overhead. In this talk we will consider channels as a third alternatives that can have lower