pipelining
Definition
In computing, a pipeline, also known as a data pipeline, is a set of data processing elements connected in series, where the output of one element is the input of the next one. The elements of a pipeline are often executed in parallel or in time-sliced fashion. Some amount of buffer storage is often inserted between elements.
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Why CESR needs to anticipate pipelining
If you have a stream coming in, you have to look ahead how big a chunk of data can be. We call this a logical atomic data chunk.
JSON is slow
With JSON I don’t know where the end is, so I have to parse the initial stream to find out. That's slow.
Meaning of Pipelining
That once you have a block of data, that you can pull off chunks and de-multiplex from the stream into cores and multiplex them back into the streams. Cores in big datacenters are now max 5 GHz, a pipeline is 40 GHz. So you have to be able to do pipelining (split off over many cores). CESR is the only streaming protocol that has this anticipation on board.
Source: Samuel Smith, KERI Zoom meeting Dec 5 2023.