Of course, but there is a definitive resource cost to enqueue and dequeue the task (that is in addition to the instance time), and there is currently no charge for that.
On the other hand, if I defer work by writing an entity to the datastore and processing it later, I have to pay both read and write costs. On Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:19:28 PM UTC-4, Jeff Schnitzer wrote: > > This is an interesting question, but I wouldn't exactly call tasks > free: When a task executes, your instance is invoked. Tasks are > really just a way of offsetting cost until later. > > Jeff > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/Y9-ZVYnTQP0J. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
