Re: A proposal for a General Clustering Framework

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl@conservativecomputer.com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:08:01PM -0600, Alan Robertson wrote:

> The third one has different
> semantics, and shouldn't be made to look like the other two...  [and it's
> probably not that useful anyway...]

No! Distributed delivery without order coherancy is fine for things
like performance data, where you happen to not mind occasional missing
data. And there can be a significant savings to not have to deliver
things in order, or reliably.

-- g

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