taskPool.asyncBuf()

You will be familiarized with the use of taskPool.asyncBuf() function in this lesson.

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Use of asyncBuf()

Similar to parallel(), asyncBuf() iterates InputRange ranges in parallel. It stores the elements in a buffer as they are produced by the range, and serves the elements from that buffer to its users.

In order to avoid making a potentially fully-lazy input range a fully-eager range, it iterates the elements in waves. Once it prepares a certain number of elements in parallel, it waits until those elements are consumed by popFront() before producing the elements of the next wave.

asyncBuf() takes a range and an optional buffer size that determines how many elements should be made available during each wave:

auto elements = taskPool.asyncBuf(range, buffer_size);

To see the effects of asyncBuf(), let’s use a range that takes half a second to iterate and half a second to process each element. This range simply produces integers up to the specified limit:

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