http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/97 software architecture & engineering, code hints, sometimes philosophy, photography, life, etc. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/97/comment-page-1#comment-821 Mark Turansky Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:35:35 +0000 http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/97#comment-821 Good point. We rolled our own framework and used a class called MiniBatch to send a bunch of tasks to a consumer. TaskBuffer would have been a good name, too. Prefetching sounds like consumers pull queued work, which they do in our system except that all the work are the individual tasks. We needed a way to batch them up (or buffer them) so that the unit of work pulled by a consumer is a bigger chunk than just the single task. Good point. We rolled our own framework and used a class called MiniBatch to send a bunch of tasks to a consumer. TaskBuffer would have been a good name, too. Prefetching sounds like consumers pull queued work, which they do in our system except that all the work are the individual tasks. We needed a way to batch them up (or buffer them) so that the unit of work pulled by a consumer is a bigger chunk than just the single task.

]]> http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/97/comment-page-1#comment-819 bob Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:29:33 +0000 http://blog.markturansky.com/archives/97#comment-819 Why use a new terminology when what you describe is just task buffering (or prefetching)? Why use a new terminology when what you describe is just task buffering (or prefetching)?

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