[infinispan-dev] DIST.retrieveFromRemoteSource

[Manik Surtani]

On 25 Jan 2012, at 08:51, Dan Berindei wrote:

> Slightly related, I wonder if Manik's comment is still true:
> 
>    if at all possible, try not to use JGroups' ANYCAST for now.
> Multiple (parallel) UNICASTs are much faster.)
> 
> Intuitively it shouldn't be true, unicasts+FutureCollator do basically
> the same thing as anycast+GroupRequest.

Yes, this is outdated and may not be an issue with JGroups 3.x anymore.  The problem, IIRC, was that ANYCAST would end up doing UNICASTs in sequence and not in parallel.

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