[Swift-devel] progress stats lying

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 07:15 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> > > A possible solution is to add another state ("Checking status" or
> > > something), that is triggered in Execute by a task completed event.
> 
> r2887 adds a checking status event in execute2, right after the 
> vdl:execute call. I think that is sufficient? or are you claiming that 
> something deeper in the execute layer is delaying things?

It's probably better but not sufficient. With many threads there may be
delays between the vdl:execute call completing and the next thing
running may be visible.

The problem is that swift may say that more jobs are active than known
possible, which will raise eyebrows.