Can you back your disagreement up with some examples of non-trivial programs
which are successfully using your model and were unable to just as quickly
sucessfully use MPI/PVM/etc?
: However, I stress again that unlike most other DSM system, DIPC uses
: strict consistency.
I don't believe that that term has any meaning, even on a uniprocessor
single threaded program. What does it mean? Are the registers consistent
with memory? Are they consistent only after procedure calls? What about
store ordering? What about register write buffers?
: DIPC makes the programming task easier by allowing the programmer to not
: worry about invoking the right send/receive calls at the right places in
: his code. I think this is a great help.
Actual experience has shown the opposite.
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