[Developers] eliminating scheduling ambiguities

[Erik Schnetter]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 12:04:20, David Rideout wrote:

> I propose to modify the specification of Cactus slightly, to state  
> that the
> relative order of scheduled routines, beyond that specified by  
> before & after
> requests in thorns' schedule.ccl, is fixed in some arbitrary way (say
> alphabetically).  I believe that currently it is unspecified.

Although unspecified, the routines are sorted alphabetically.  Thus  
your test suites should already work.

For the test suites to work, it is not necessary that Cactus  
specifies a specific order.  It suffices if Cactus guarantees that  
there will be an order, such that the same parameter file always  
leads to the same execution order.

As a side points, there are routines called "zzz_Whatever", ensuring  
that they will be executed "last".

-erik

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