[RFC] Question about your implementation

[hodatorabi]

Hello,

Sorry if this is not the place for this to be asked, but I was reading your code and there is a part that I don't understand. I noticed that in the base server, base.py, it's the _process_clients method that takes care of determining whether it is time to process the client reports and proceed with the aggregation process, however, this is also being done in the periodic_task if I'm not wrong. Can you perhaps explain to me how these two are different? Thank you!

[baochunli]

Depending on self.simulate_wall_time, there are two ways of running Plato sessions in asynchronous mode. One is to run it in real-time, where _periodic_task(self) is called, and the other is to run it with the wall-clock time simulated, when _periodic_task(self) is not called. In the latter case, _process_clients() is where aggregation starts.