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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:34:27 -0500, Edwin Grubbs <edwin.grubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think this shows that if we run everything through a queue, there
> needs to be a way to run really quick tasks in parallel with really
> big tasks. You wouldn't want a single POFile export for a project to
> be stuck behind the processing of 75k files for all of ubuntu. There
> could be a slow lane and a fast lane. If the jobs have a method for
> estimating the length of time reasonably well, we could also have a
> super-fast lane, where the page decides not to queue the task at all.

https://dev.launchpad.net/CodeTeam/ExpressLane is an idea of Aaron's in
this direction.

Cheers,
mwh