`Empty' job files?

[Garrett Cooper]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> So, I just tried something to see whether or not nested quotes worked,
>> and it appears to have worked AFAICT. However, are `empty' jobfiles
>> like this suppose to persist, or exit? Seems like a waste of resources
>> if they're meant to persist.
>>
> It's quite deliberate; such "empty" jobs may be used as states and
> toggles.
>
> Scott

Wouldn't it be smarter to use emitted states than an empty job though
for scaling purposes?
-Garrett