[Swift-devel] Re: Request for control over throttle algorithm

[Ian Foster]

These are good questions: where do different things belong.

Working out the right approach in this specific example will surely 
provide insights into how to do things in other cases.

Ian.

Ben Clifford wrote:
> it seems superficially to say "we shouldn't be forcing our execution 
> management semantics on the underlying execution system"; which perhaps 
> means both that we shouldn't be rate limiting but also that we shouldn't 
> be doing retries and things like that - we either expect someone else to 
> deal with this stuff or we do it ourselves.
>
>   

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