[saga-rg] tasks and jobs...

[Thilo Kielmann]

I am actually in favour removing the concept of "tasks" from the
SAGA spec. It simply creates intellectual overhead. (Remember people
keep asking about the difference of tasks and jobs??)

> > - synchronous operation
> > - asynchronous operation   ;  starts immediately
> > - task creating operation  ;  needs explicit start
> 
> Both of the latter calls return a task handle (or call it
> async op handle), that why, in SAGA, they are esentially the
> same.

so, call it async handle

> Well, our point is really that everythin usful from task
> should go into the job interface (job should implement
> task).
> 
> So, maybe you are actually in violent agreement, kind of?
> :-)  Somwhoe I doubt it :-P

violent, at least -- agreement, maybe?


Thilo
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Thilo Kielmann                                 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/