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Not sure i want to take the polling approach, on a system such as ours, if the timeout is too short and one or more of the tasks are still running then the results could be inconsistent. If the timeout is too long then that could lead to performance issues especially since these tasks are hitting an extrnal datasource.

Asim
– Asim

2010-07-09 16:50:10 +00:00
Commented Jul 9, 2010 at 16:50
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poll waits up to a time delay, but if data is available sooner it immediately returns that data. So you're essentially able to check the "done yet?" flag occasionally but respond to data immediately.

samkass
– samkass

2012-07-05 17:01:55 +00:00
Commented Jul 5, 2012 at 17:01

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