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Futures and promises

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In computer science, future, promise, delay, and deferred refer to constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages. They describe an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete.

Futures and promises - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Computer science constructs Not to be confused with Promise theory . In computer science , futures , promises , delays , and deferreds are constructs used for synchronizing program execution in some concurrent programming languages . Each is an object that acts as a proxy for a result that is initially unknown, usually because the computation of its value is not yet complete. The term promise was proposed in 1976 by Daniel P. Friedman and David Wise, [ 1 ] and Peter Hibbard called it eventual . [

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