Only public-facing daemons use it, currently, and all
public-facing daemons will pre-spawn it as early as feasible.
lei will need it eventually to handle queries requiring C++,
but I'm not certain what path to take with lei, yet...
# and a falsy value if handled synchronously
sub async_mset {
my ($self, $qry_str, $opt, $cb, @args) = @_;
- $XHC //= xhc_start_maybe;
if ($XHC) { # unconditionally retrieving pct + rank for now
xdb($self); # populate {nshards}
my @margs = ($self->xh_args, xh_opt($opt));