Re: A question of definition

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1 total messages Started by darrell Mon, 09 Mar 1987 15:05

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Author: darrell
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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