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

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 20:04 -0500, Ian Foster wrote:
> 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.

Will it? The exact same statement could have been made when such
"concepts" were put into cog/karajan, or when Yong figured out specific
numbers (and on all the occasions that have worked to build up to what
we have today).

> 
> 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.
> >
> >   
>