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From: creemer@catalonia.sw.mcc.com (David Creemer)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Parallelism and OOPSs
Summary: Object-Oriented Concurrent Processing
Keywords: Coupling, Decomposition, Networks
Message-ID: <2988@catalonia.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:47:07 GMT
References: <477@schaefer.MATH.WISC.EDU>
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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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 "Object-Oriented Concurrent Processing," from the MIT Press.
It contains several articles on just this subject.

   David Creemer,   MCC Software Technology Program
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