Re: Re producers and consumers

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In article <1991Feb6.122949.8210@rodan.acs.syr.edu> greeny@wotan.top.cis.syr.edu (Jonathan Greenfield) writes:

   At a purely practical level, the 'copy-penalty' is probably not a real issue
   since any program that aspires to efficieny (when compared to sequential
   programs) must be coarse-grained enough so as to make the communication
   time negligible when compared to the computation time.  When this is the case
   the 'copy-penalty' will obviously be negligible also.

And only true when message passing is not used as the generalized
paradigm (as in Occam) and you're writing topology specific code with a
detailed awareness of the target machine... I agree.

On the other hand ...

Steven
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