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+/**
+* Standin for C++0x's std::async
+* (C) 2009 Jack Lloyd
+*
+* Distributed under the terms of the Botan license
+*/
+
+#ifndef BOTAN_ASYNC_H__
+#define BOTAN_ASYNC_H__
+
+#include <future>
+#include <thread>
+
+namespace Botan {
+
+/**
+* A simple version of std::async (as it is not in GCC 4.5)
+* Will be removed once GCC supports it natively
+*/
+template<typename F>
+auto std_async(F f) -> std::future<decltype(f())>
+   {
+   typedef decltype(f()) result_type;
+   std::packaged_task<result_type ()> task(std::move(f));
+   std::future<result_type> future = task.get_future();
+   std::thread thread(std::move(task));
+   thread.detach();
+   return future;
+   }
+
+}
+
+#endif