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Template-ify Task and Taskflow for type-erasure backend #744
Today Taskflow and Task:s uses std::function<...> unconditionally for all type-erasing operations. Sometimes, however, a user may need to use their own type-erasure, or there are circumstances that make the standard function suboptimal (I have also seen an issue regarding using 'delegate' instead, which also aligns with this request).
I am proposing that we follow the 'standard' (STL) style and create template </*something function*/> BasicTask
and template </*something function*/> BasicTaskflow
(similar to std::basic_string) and replace current Task and Taskflow with type-aliases: using Task = BasicTask<std::function<void()>>;
and similar for Taskflow. This should be fully backwards compatible and doable since Taskflow is a header-only library anyway.
Hi @doocman , this in fact is a very good idea although it requires templating pretty much everything in the library (requiring a big rewrite). If you would like to help contribute to this effort, please let me know!
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tsung-wei-huang commentedon Dec 15, 2025
Hi @doocman , this in fact is a very good idea although it requires templating pretty much everything in the library (requiring a big rewrite). If you would like to help contribute to this effort, please let me know!