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Subject: Re: A question of definition
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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.