On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:44:15PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <42D59151.7060406@iinet.net.au>, James Buchanan writes:
> >
> >Time to get rid of soft updates. :)
> 
> No.  They're better than what we have without them.

Not to mention that, as grotty as the implementation is, the basic
technique is really correct: rather than ad-hoc rules to guarantee
that no dependencies are pending for more than <sync interval> seconds,
you really _do_ want to draw the dependency graph, and figure out what
to flush in which order.

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com

"The inconsistency is startling, though admittedly, if consistency is to be
 abandoned or transcended, there is no problem."		- Noam Chomsky