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IRC Transcripts
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While we generally don't publish literal logs of our IRC discussions, in some case
a discussion was found to be so instructive, that we save a literal transcript and
provide an (slightly condensed) excerpt for later referral.
.allocation of processing buffers
How to control and to what extent to pre-calculate the allocation of processing buffers.
These buffers are used by the processing node to be invoked, to get the ``input data''
and to store the ``output data''. This topic might get us into some complications,
since some nodes take multiple input/output buffers, while other nodes require to
calculate ``in-place'' +
->link:2008-06_BufferAllocation.html[IRC June 2008]
.frame identification
We need a way of identifying a frame within the cache; this frame might hold an
intermediary result; so the access key needs to include the position in the graph,
as well as the output process and some generation number. This topic was touched
in one of our earliest meetings +
->link:{ldoc}/devel/meeting_summary/2007-08-10.html[summary]