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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Distributed Systems Annex, data sharing between programs
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Date: 2012-06-09T11:14:07-04:00
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> Now, the contrary example.
>
> You have a system with several thousand machines and you want to send
> them new configuration or something.

Do you know about pragma Asynchronous (aspect Asynchronous in Ada 2012)?
It causes an "RPC" to behave like a message rather than a call
(so it's not really an "RPC" anymore).

So with DSA, you can loop through those thousand machines,
and do an asynchronous "call" to each.  This just sends
a thousand messages -- no waiting for replies, no dealing
with failed nodes, etc.

- Bob