[Swift-devel] too much slow down.

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> We need to classify errors into transients and non-transients.

...

Any error is transient if you wait long enough... pretty much that's what 
this delay stuff is doing anyway - trying to avoid transients. But what a 
transient is is subjective. Quite legitimately a 1h site outage could be a 
transient or could not be, depending on what you're trying to do.

The choice of constants (of which there are two) used in delay calculation 
is poor at the moment in that it appears to be giving ridiculously long 
delays.

I think what those values should be will be decided by user taste. Some 
would rather have workflows fail instantly (for instantly = <5min) whilst 
others might be prepared to wait a week... at the moment, it appears 
biased towards the latter.

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