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Re:Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acycli... by tr352 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:40PM (#23156068)
Agreed. First sentence: "A Directed Acyclic Graph will let you run pipeline steps out of order." That's simply false.
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Re:Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acycli... by defen on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @01:59PM (#23157318)
Interpret "order" as "the order in which the steps are defined in your YAML file", and it's simply true.
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Re:Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acycli... by tr352 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:42PM (#23158744)
I'm nitpicking but my point is that a DAG doesn't let you run anything. It might represent something, though, such as a bunch of tasks and a "must be executed before" relation. It's sloppy, imprecise use of language.
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Re:Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acycli... by BorisTheBrave on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:55AM (#23164912)
By that logic, no code lets you run anything, it just "represents" a program that actually runs. That's just pedantry.
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Re:Faster and more flexible pipelines with a Directed Acycli... by tr352 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:51AM (#23165203)
Code runs and possibly lets you run something (for example in case of an OS or interpreter). I don't see a problem there.
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