Feature request (anycast)

[hissssst]

I found myself implementing this feature many times and I think that this feature would be useful to be shipped with syn.
By anycast I mean sending message to one process of the group which is choosen with some algorithm.

Possible algorithms:

• Random member of group
• Round robin
• Random process on the same node

I don't think that in would be useful, but anycall would make sense too

[ostinelli]

I'm currently working on v3 so I'm reviewing all open issues.

I think that choosing a process randomly in a group to send a message is an application-specific matter, as the type of algorithm might have a relation with the reason one is choosing a process from a group.

It looks to me this can be left to the developer, by retrieving the processes (and eventually, getting only the local ones) and selecting one as they please.

Is there a specific and common use case that you'd like to share to see whether this can become part of the core?

Thank you for your suggestion.

[ostinelli]

Closing.