That's one reason why many batch processing systems have ways of rerunning parts of a job.
If you design the system for it, of course it could continue processing and then raise some alert pointing at the problem data. If you haven't yet considered this failure mode though it's probably best to just stop. If you carry on maybe you're rendering garbage to the screen, allocating buffers many times bigger than you should because you read 4 bytes that don't mean what you think they will.. On Jun 5, 2012 3:38 PM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > I'm pretty much with Rick and Cédric on this topic... > > On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:42:57 +0200, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > "Going bang" really isn't your friend if processing large data sets. >> Especially if you're processing them in parallel, even more especially if >> the processing involves side effects - at which point you've made your >> behaviour non-deterministic. >> > > ... so how would it be better to have the whole data set processed without > problems until the end, but with the doubt that it just produced (some) > nonsense? > > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
