interprocess inlining

[Ulf Wiger]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Shawn Pearce wrote:

>Thomas Lindgren <thomasl_4711@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Third: another interesting issue, if we want to handle
>> more complex scenarios, is how to handle chained
>> sends:
>>
>> - A sends to B
>> - B sends to C
>> - C sends to D
>
>This is the more interesting case to me.  Sometimes a
>server is built to just proxy messages to another
>process, after perhaps a very mild reformatting.
>
>If the last meaningful op that a server does is
>a message send, and it doesn't do any function calls
>except the tail recursion to go back to receive,
>it might be nice to inline this just to improve
>latency.
>
>server(State) ->
>	receive
>		{request, Payload} ->
>			Pid = State#mystate.target,
>			Pid ! {dowork, Payload, self()},
>			server(State)
>	end.


Indeed. It could be one of the steps towards really using
lots of simple processes rather than a few complicated ones.
I believe it could make for much more readable code in the
end.

/Uffe
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