[infinispan-dev] distributed execution - invoking commands on self

[Manik Surtani]

Fair enough.  Keep it simple.

On 18 Apr 2011, at 14:12, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:

> On 11-04-18 7:58 AM, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> I still think Mircea's suggestion is very valid.  Try cloning first.  If cloning is not supported then serialize/deserialize.  And in any case you only need 1 copy of the callable to send across to all other nodes, and the original copy for local execution, right?
>> 
> Even if a type implements Cloneable we can not cast it to Cloneable and invoke clone as Cloneable is just a marker interface. One can invoke clone only on types known to implement clone method (ArrayList, Set etc etc). Yes, if type implements Cloneable we could reasonably assume that it implemented clone method but still - we have to resort to reflection to invoke clone method but that route is even worse IMHO. I'd avoid this altogether.
> 
> It is just one copy for local execution. Time it takes to do this is several magnitudes smaller than the task of migrating Callables around the cluster executing them and collecting results from all those non local Callables.
> 
> Vladimir

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