On 9/7/2011 1:01 PM, john gilmore wrote:
Most of the disadvantages of hierarchical subtasking
can be avoided by using a largely hidden control task
that ATTACHes other working tasks, which may sometimes
but not often ATTACH their own subtasks.
Subtasks of an ABENDing [sub]task are ABENDed, but
other subtasks of the control task that do not depend
from it are not. The hidden control task can also be
used to simplify communication among its many subtasks.
In deft hands this hybrid scheme can be used to exploit
almost all of the different strengths of both hierarchical
and peer-to-peer schemes.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
Interesting. How do you 'hide' a control task? What do
you mean by 'largely hidden'?
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-Steve Comstock
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303-393-8716
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