[infinispan-dev] Replicated sync vs async caches after ISPN-2473

[Giovanni Meo]

Hi infinispan-dev,

in order to chase an issue i have reported earlier i started to go through the 
code path executed by a replicated sync cache when adding a key to the 
ConcurrentMap. While walking through the 
org.infinispan.statetransfer.StateTransferInterceptor:handleWriteCommand method 
i run into a pointer to ISPN-2473.

Now what this enhancement has done is to transform the sync writes to async ones 
to avoid deadlocks. Now the question i have, from a newbie point of view, and 
sorry if it's trivial, what is now the difference between an async replicated 
cache and a sync one? Seems after this enhancement there is not much difference 
for non-transactional caches is that correct?

Thanks,
Giovanni
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