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From: rice@dg-rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Parallelism and OOPSs
Summary: Check out Linda
Keywords: Coupling, Decomposition, Networks, Linda
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Date: 8 Oct 89 02:43:01 GMT
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In article <477@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU> wayne@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU (Rick Wayne) writes:

> since objects decompose so nicely into independent entities (at least 
> abstractly), wouldn't this provide an excellent hook for introducing 
> parallelism?  could be loosely or tightly coupled; message passing would
> either be memory-to-memory transfer or network sends.

Check out Linda, a delightful methodology for parallel programming.
A good introduction is Ahuja, Carriero, and Gelernter, "Linda and Friends,"
_Computer_, August 1986, pp. 26-34.  (_Computer_, in case that's not your
normal leisure reading, is a publication of the IEEE.)

Prolog-heads will like Linda too.
Brian Rice   rice@dg-rtp.dg.com   (919) 248-6328
DG/UX Product Assurance Engineering
Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, N.C.
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