Re: Proposed amendment
William C. Saphir (wcs@nas.nasa.gov)
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:50:42 -0700
On Jun 14, 11:11am, Eric Salo wrote:
> Subject: Proposed amendment
> Amendment:
>
> It is proposed that the root and comm arguments be removed from both the
> blocking and the non-blocking versions of MPI_SPAWN_INDEPENDENT and
> MPI_SPAWN_MULTIPLE_INDEPENDENT.
>
> Rationale:
>
> None of the INDEPENDENT calls return communicators, so they really don't need
> to be collective.
This seems like a completely reasonable suggestion. The existence
of a communicator is largely historical and as far
as I can tell it provides no true usefulness.
Any objections to taking out the arguments?
Bill