Re: Dependency based properties

On 27 March 2014 01:50, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tatsuhiro.t@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A <-- B <-- D
>>    \- C
>> I'd assume C would make progress before D given it is closer to the root.
>>
>
> Thank you. 'Closer to the root' is a good reason.

I had assumed an implementation that wouldn't respect this "closer to
the root" property, but that isn't the only implementation I can
imagine.

Note that you haven't really said anything at all about the relative
priority of C and D.  It could be that a "longer" tail is actually
more interesting to the client, but either way, the client has the
means of expressing an actual preference using prioritization.  In all
other cases, the server is left to guess.

>
> If B is closed, then do C and D have the same precedence?
>
> A <-- D
>      \- C

Same as above.  C and D are assigned no relative weighting or
dependency, so the order in which the server allocates resources is
indeterminate.

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:57:14 UTC