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Antoine Pitrou commented on ARROW-8732: --------------------------------------- Microsoft PPL cancellation_token: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/parallel/concrt/cancellation-in-the-ppl?view=vs-2019 > [C++] Let Futures support cancellation > -------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-8732 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8732 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Wish > Components: C++ > Reporter: Antoine Pitrou > Assignee: Antoine Pitrou > Priority: Major > > There should be a way for consumers of Futures to notify that they are not > interested in the task at hand anymore. For some kinds of tasks this may > allow cancelling the task in-flight (e.g. an IO task, or a task consisting of > multiple steps). -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)