Re: Issue #525/#4892: on only fetching the pristines we really need

[Julian Foad]

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>Julian Foad wrote:
>> exploration was enough to show that an initial release based on the
>> original approach has possibilities of being improved, incrementally, in
>> that way, as and when resources permit.
>> 
>> In other words I am not recommending choosing one approach and
>> abandoning the other, but starting with one and postponing the other as
>> possible future improvement work.
>
>Sorry, but could you spell out what are the "one approach" and "the
>other"?  Are you proposing to release the code as it is, fetching in
>advance, and saying you're confident it can in the future be taught to
>fetch during the operation, notwithstanding kotkov@'s points about
>RA-level timeouts?
Yes; while uncertain how much effort it might require to overcome the concerns 
such as RA-level timeouts.
- Julian