[erlang-questions] wildcarded resource counters in Gproc

[Garrett Smith]

I need to set aside some time - and compared to some of the recent
events in global politics, this is not a super big deal.

My line of inquiry would be a second type of counter where the key
contained parts - and incrementing this type of counter added
additional wild card entries up the path - so any level of wild
carding is possible.

I can't really make any informed statement without playing around.
This just strikes me as a new type of counter.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Ulf Wiger <ulf@REDACTED> wrote:
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> 2016-12-01 19:18 GMT+01:00 Garrett Smith <g@REDACTED>:
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>> And another tack - is there a path here to a generalized interface for
>> alternative schemes? E.g. passing along a function to do some work on
>> the table? Maybe not for the faint of heart, but this would reduce the
>> temptation to modify the interface for these case.
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> One complication that comes to mind is the need for symmetry - at least in
> the case of aggregated counters and resource counters: they need to
> increment on one end and correspondingly decrement on the other.
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> There is of course also the question of how much functionality can be
> crammed into gproc before people simply give up. :)
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> But again, open to suggestions and PRs.
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> BR,
> Ulf W
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