Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm
From: bds@rzg.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK)
Subject: Re: Why explicit message passing??
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Garching
Date: 2 Apr 1998 14:34:52 +0200
Message-ID: <6g00lcINN8cg@s4bds.rzg.mpg.de>

In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980402030406.29801D-100000@wallybox.cei.net>,
Kamran Karimi  <kamran@wallybox.cei.net> wrote:

|>  In OOP you can hide the location of an object, allowing the programmer to
|> use an object's services without bothering about its location. This is very
|> good.

Yes, but does the compiler understand?  And does the programmer have the
ability to reach in and change a few things by hand when there is no
speedup above 4 PEs?

cu,
Bruce


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