Metadata support: Extensions handling

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/12/13 8:50 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:
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>Conceptually that's more or less what I was thinking, but the nature of
>extensions being what it is (extensible, not known in advance, etc), I
>gravitate more to the plugin-oriented approach, rather than baking in
>support for some things in the providers.

I meant for configuration; obviously the actual processing has to be
pluggable somehow if it's not just going to be brute force copying.

>All true. With metadata batches in particular, we do have some
>historical experience and reason to believe that those have substantial
>time and/or memory costs.

Memory yes, I'm not sure how much time has ever been an issue.

>I'd like to think that (large) batches are going to go away soon, but I
>fear that they will not, at least in the timeframe of v3 (v4...?)

I don't think they will until they have to, but we can't make them scale
once they reach a certain size.

-- Scott