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Article #100Re: A question of definition
From: darrell
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1987 15:05
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1987 15:05
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> I'm looking for people's definitions of the degree of coupling between > processors. Here are some that I think aren't unreasonable: > > * the degree of overhead in sending data from one processor to another > perhaps more significant than the bandwidth of an interprocessor connection is the latency -- that is, the minimum time for end-to-end communication. Many 10Mbit/sec links require several thousand instruction times to fire up a packet.
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