[infinispan-dev] DIST.retrieveFromRemoteSource

[Mircea Markus]

On 25 Jan 2012, at 09:42, Bela Ban wrote:

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> On 1/25/12 9:51 AM, Dan Berindei wrote:
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>> Slightly related, I wonder if Manik's comment is still true:
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>>     if at all possible, try not to use JGroups' ANYCAST for now.
>> Multiple (parallel) UNICASTs are much faster.)
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>> Intuitively it shouldn't be true, unicasts+FutureCollator do basically
>> the same thing as anycast+GroupRequest.
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> No, parallel unicasts will be faster, as an anycast to A,B,C sends the 
> unicasts sequentially
Thanks, very good to know that.

I'm a a bit confused by the jgroups terminology though :-)
My understanding of the term ANYCAST is that the message is sent to *one* of the A,B,C. But from what I read here it is sent to A, B and C - that's what I know as MULTICAST.
More, on the discussion we had on IRC, jgroup's MULTICAST seemed to mean BROADCAST...
I hope I don't sound pedant here, I just want to understand the things correctly :-)