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Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Parallelism and OOPSs
Keywords: Coupling, Decomposition, Networks
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Date: 6 Oct 89 12:36:54 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 
               ^^^^^^^^^^----> Isn't it better :
since objects are 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.
>
>this sounds so obvious that i'm sure SOMEBODY must be doing it
what about actors?
>                          comments?
	I think this could be a real interesting topic for further
discussions (also for comp.parallel).

	Hopefull

	Giancarlo

charmi@cs.buffalo.edu


[ I certainly second the motion that this group has a real interest
in the subject.

	Steve
]