Re: Custom compile from IFS

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alas, terminology.

Indeed. As is often the case, there are different levels of meaning
for any given word or phrase.

One level is the thing you get when you do RTVJOBA TYPE(&TYPE).

Another level is the notion, not specific to the i, that "batch
processing" entails sequential queues of work, whereas "interactive
processing" entails parallel or perceived-as-parallel execution.

If the same hundred developers requested the same hundred compiles
simultaneously, and those requests went to a single, common job queue
('batch compile'), they would process one after the other, rather than
all in one go.

So here's another term with multiple levels of meaning: queue. ;) At
our shop, we all compile in batch, and we all submit to the same
queue, but it's configured to run more than enough concurrent jobs
that in practice none of our compilation jobs ever has to wait for
another to finish.

John Y.