Re: CPL: Summary of what it is

[John Stracke <francis@xxxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lennox wrote:

> Thus, one of the design goals of the
> language is that script processing should not force a server to use
> arbitrary amounts of CPU time, memory, or related issues.

Something that came up in the meeting: what about disk space? This arises from
the idea of expanding the first, say, 90 days' worth of instances, and then
rerunning the expansion every 90 days.  In theory, someone could have a
recurrence rule that would expand to up to, er, 7,776,000 instances; but that
can be detected easily when the rule is submitted.

Basically, this changes the expensive resource consumed from CPU time (which is
hard to measure in advance) to disk space (which is easy--just give the users a
disk quota).

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