[E-Lang] Hash Chaining & Capabilities, Proposal #1b: SimplifyingPluribus

Tyler Close tclose@oilspace.com
Thu, 9 Nov 2000 09:12:06 -0000


Markm wrote:
> Beyond this, I think we may be misunderstanding each other.
>
> Why would the sending vat need to hear back from the
> receiving vat before
> sending further messages on RemoteVow that go from the
> sending vat to the
> receiving vat?  In the pipelined Pluribus protocol without
> Jed's suggestion,
> it doesn't.

I had assumed that the pipelining was only with respect to a single
batch of invocations. I didn't realize that Pluribus additionally
pipelined the batches. I do not pipeline the batches in Droplets. I
wait for a response, and smash the return value promises if I don't
get it. When does E smash the return value promises if the remote Vat
never responds?

Tyler