[Pipet Devel] BL PL design documentation

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> Question: What about the "Grandma BL"?
> 
> Also, do you really want to call these components "Grandma, Mother, and
> Baby"?  It's perhaps a little corny :-)  I would prefer "Primary, Secondary,
> and Tertiary".  Then you can abbreviate them "PBL, SBL, and TBL" or "BL1, BL2,
> and BL3" or whatever.

Well, there is a real meaning between these grandma-mother-baby qualifiers, that
would be lost with a BL1, BL2, BL3 scheme. You need only one grandma-BL (Jarl
doesn't use the term, but in my mind it's the part responsible for "centralized
distribution") to control a whole "piper program". You need many mother-BL's
(one on each machine) for one grandma-BL. The same way, there are many baby-BL's
for one mother-BL (many baby-BL's on each machine). If you don't like baby and
grandma, what about super-BL (SBL), mother-BL (MBL) and child-BL (CBL)?

BTW Jarl, your document really reflects what we agreed on friday!

	Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Valin
Universite de Sherbrooke - Genie Electrique
valj01 at gel.usherb.ca