[E-Lang] New Page: Partially Ordered Message Delivery
Tyler Close
tclose@oilspace.com
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:06:50 -0000
MarkM wrote:
> Depending on your attachment to pipelining and
> deadlock-free non-blocking-ness, Droplets may conceivably
> want to wait for a
> round trip from vanilla-web-site-in-VatC-role, to confirm
> arrival of
> message X, before sending message Y to VatB.
I misunderstood this the first time I read it.
I hadn't thought of doing this kind of a dependency graph among the
outgoing messages. At first blush, it seems like it has the potential
of getting very messy. I'll keep it in my back pocket in case I run
into trouble with the smashing approach.
Tyler