Hi Stefan, and once again thanks for such a fast reply!
Ok it makes sense now together with the change type detail. The quote comes from the programming and user guide v1.14 for Eq1.6 in the section regarding co::Serializable (8.4.3). In my case I am actually not interested for mapping older versions so I guess unbuffered would be the way to go except if I m missing some caveats that I am not aware about.. Thanks for the info once again! Petros P.S I ll probably will get back to you soon since I have to implement a generative particle system and I would definitely need some advice regarding possible optimizations / design suggestions on the distribution/handling of the data.. :) On Nov 11, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Stefan Eilemann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Petros, > > On 11. Nov 2014, at 9:10, Petros.Kataras [via Software] > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What I notice though if I run eqPly is that the (de)serialization functions >> are called for both DIRTY_ALL and with the actual dirtyBits set at each >> commit/sync. >> >> Am I missing something here and if not could I get some more info about the >> rationale behind this?? > > The documentation is trying to convey the concept, but the implementation > differs in some places. The documentation is correct for unbuffered objects, > but for buffered (instance/delta) the object has to retain a full copy of > each version to allow late mapping (or how would the new slave instance get > an old snapshot of the master?). The mapped instances only get the delta > since the last version. > > The documentation in master looks different already: > > /** > * Worker for pack() and getInstanceData(). > * > * Override this and deserialize() to distribute subclassed data. > * > * This method is called with DIRTY_ALL from getInstanceData() and with > * the actual dirty bits from pack(), which also resets the dirty state > * afterwards. The dirty bits are transmitted beforehand, and do not > * need to be transmitted by the overriding method. > * @version 1.0 > */ > > Or did I just not find what you quoted? > > > Cheers, > > Stefan. > -- > http://www.eyescale.ch > https://github.com/Eyescale/ > http://www.linkedin.com/in/eilemann > > > > > > > signature.asc (858 bytes) > <http://software.1713.n2.nabble.com/attachment/7586657/0/signature.asc> > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://software.1713.n2.nabble.com/co-Serializable-get-applyInstanceData-unpack-pack-question-tp7586656p7586657.html > Sent from the Equalizer - Parallel Rendering mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > eq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev > http://www.equalizergraphics.com _______________________________________________ eq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.equalizergraphics.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/eq-dev http://www.equalizergraphics.com
