your "force the returned cookie" means asking for a reply with the returned cookie, right?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barton C Massey</b> <<a href="mailto:bart@cs.pdx.edu">
bart@cs.pdx.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The general ruleset I always intended for using a cookie to
<br>hide latency is this:<br> 1. Always send a request as soon as you legally can.<br> 2. Never force the returned cookie until you actually need<br> to examine the result.<br>In the presence of multiple requests, it gets a bit more
<br>complicated.<br> 1. Always send each request as soon as you legally can.<br> 1a. If you can send multiple requests at the same time,<br> send the one whose value you expect to need first,<br> first.
<br> 1b. If rule 1a doesn't help, a secondary tiebreaker<br> is that it's better to send requests the server<br> can process quickly first, followed by those<br> the server might run slowly.
<br> 2. Never force a returned cookie until you actually need<br> to examine the result.<br><br>The idea of rule 1b is that if you're lucky, you can be<br>working on the quick results while the server is processing<br>
the slow request. In general, don't worry about ordering of<br>simultaneous requests too much. It's hard to construct a<br>realistic example where these kinds of corner cases matter.<br><br>Note that rule 2 is stronger than necessary in the presence
<br>of multiple requests. If you need to force a cookie returned<br>for a request r, it is harmless to also force cookies<br>returned from requests earlier than r: these values will be<br>available anyway, since the server always returns results in
<br>order. However, it is also harmless to wait to force a<br>cookie until you need the value, and it makes it clearer<br>that you've done the right thing.<br><br>If you follow these rules, you will be getting about all the
<br>latency hiding you can expect from what is a fundamentally<br>serialized protocol without using threading or some<br>equivalent mechanism.<br><br>Hope this helps. Comment welcome.<br><br> Bart<br></blockquote>
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