This helper was drafted for the Job / JobPlanning and Scheduler
interface in 2013, but seemingly not yet put into action. While
in the original use case, we have a genuine measuerment for the
tree depth (given by the depth of the processing stack), in other
use cases we want to use to offset embedded within the indicator
itself for keeping track of the depth. Thus I add a second
mark operation, which usess the current offset to set a new
reference level. This has the consequence that the offset
has now to reflect the new reference point immediately
This is necessary since the implementation of the job functions
calls through the VTable of the interface JobClosure. Thus this
interface (and the VTable definition) needs to reside within
some compilation unit linked together with the basic job class.
TODO: move class Job entirely into the Backend
..the Idea is to rely on some kind of service,
to break the cyclic dependency with the Dispatcher.
But I seem unable to find a natural location or
concept to house that service.
basically we had two lines of doubly nested capsules, due to
using the IterAdaptor template. Actually, the evaluation stack
within JobTicket can be considered an implementation detail and
thus doesn't require an iterator interface; the intention is to
use this through JobPlanning solely.
Thus this reworking removes the special iterator within JobTicket,
but retains the idea of exposing the "current" JobTicket through
a smart pointer or operator->()
work done during the FrOSCon travel
especially the exploration stack is pushed down
first successful definition of all the JobPlanning classes
just the framework of classes necessary to pass the compiler;
all implementation is still stubbed
brainstorming how to implement the job planning stage
the idea is to built on top of the IterExplorer,
but have the "stack" of re-evaluation integrated
into a custom type, which exploits the static
node network structure to avoid heap allocations
solution idea: again use a builder function?
without any trickery, we'll always get two indirections.
Thus, the decision is to turn the 2nd indirection
into a VTable call; this way, basically the JobClosure
also acts as job functor itself.
also touches the question how to represent the job
descriptor datastructure. @Cehteh: I've just pasted
in your preliminary data struct definitinons
from the relevant mailing list discussions.
