/** An actor is an independent stream of execution in your distributed application.
*
- * \rst
+ * @beginrst
* It is located on a (simulated) :cpp:class:`host <simgrid::s4u::Host>`, but can interact
* with the whole simulated platform.
*
* The `documentation of this standard <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread>`_
* may help to understand the philosophy of the SimGrid actors.
*
- * \endrst */
+ * @endrst
+ */
class XBT_PUBLIC Actor : public xbt::Extendable<Actor> {
#ifndef DOXYGEN
friend Exec;
/** Start a previously initialized actor */
ActorPtr start(const std::function<void()>& code);
+ template <class F> ActorPtr start(F code) { return start(std::function<void()>(std::move(code))); }
+
+ template <class F, class... Args,
+ // This constructor is enabled only if the call code(args...) is valid:
+#ifndef DOXYGEN /* breathe seem to choke on function signatures in template parameter, see breathe#611 */
+ typename = typename std::result_of_t<F(Args...)>
+#endif
+ >
+ ActorPtr start(F code, Args... args)
+ {
+ return start(std::bind(std::move(code), std::move(args)...));
+ }
+
+ ActorPtr start(const std::function<void()>& code, std::vector<std::string> args);
+
/** Create an actor from a callable thing. */
template <class F> static ActorPtr create(const std::string& name, s4u::Host* host, F code)
{
/** Block the current actor until the built parallel execution terminates
*
- * \rst
+ * @beginrst
* .. _API_s4u_parallel_execute:
*
* **Example of use:** `examples/cpp/exec-ptask/s4u-exec-ptask.cpp
* models, and you must :ref:`use the ptask_L07 host model <options_model_select>` for that. Note that you can mix
* regular executions and communications with parallel executions, provided that the host model is ptask_L07.
*
- * \endrst
+ * @endrst
*/
/** Block the current actor until the built parallel execution completes */
XBT_PUBLIC void parallel_execute(const std::vector<s4u::Host*>& hosts, const std::vector<double>& flops_amounts,