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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 September 2010 09:35, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> - things like the branch scan job or diff generation when a merge
>> proposal is created, plus other similar examples
>
> I was looking for examples of uses of messaging outside task dispatch.
> Branch scan and diff generation fall squarely under task dispatch.  They
> are exactly the sort of thing I was already considering, not something I
> hadn't thought of.
>
> I would absolutely love those to become more responsive, and I think
> that messaging is the right underlying technology, but they're entirely
> in scope for
> https://dev.launchpad.net/Foundations/NewTaskSystem/Requirements

>From a certain point of view, any messaging / communicating sequential
processes architecture could be considered 'task dispatch'.  What is
the distinction?  I suppose it is that 'task dispatch' connotes that a
new process is created and it serves one message, without much
internal state from one message to the next?

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Martin